Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi
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early modern Amsterdam
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halachic practice
Jewish-Christian polemics
morteira
portuguese nation
rabbinics
religious reversion
Sephardic diaspora intellectual history
Sephardic Judaism
spinoza
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- ISBN 9781041175728
- Weight: 380g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam-based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, the book stages a dialogue between two conversos that ultimately leads to a vision of a Jewish homeland-an outcome that Morteira thought was only possible through his program for rejudaisation.
Professor Gregory Kaplan is a Professor of Spanish at the University of Tennessee, where he also holds a Lindsay Young Professorship. He has received an NEH Fellowship and the Jefferson Prize at the University of Tennessee.
