Isaac Orobio : the Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt / Carsten Wilke.
In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. He was also the major author who rebutted Benedict Spinoza's Freethought...
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[2018]
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| Series: | Studies and texts in scepticism ;
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Isaac Orobio, the Sceptic Dogmatiser / Wilke, Carsten
- "From Christianity to Judaism" Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication / Kaplan, Yosef
- Orobio Contra Prado: A Trans-European Controversy / Muchnik, Natalia
- Clandestine Classics: Isaac Orobio and the Polemical Genre among the Dutch Sephardim / Wilke, Carsten
- Isaac Orobio de Castro as a Writer: The Importance of Literary Style in the "Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles" / Boer, Harm den
- From Apologetics to Polemics: Isaac Orobio's Defences of Judaism and their Uses in the French Enlightenment / Sutcliffe, Adam
- Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul's "Israel Avenged" / Ruderman, David B.
- Bibliography: Studies and Editions of Isaac Orobio de Castro
- Index