Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis (Harvard Judaic Texts & Studies): Seventeenth Century Apologetics and the Study of Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah: 3 - Hardcover

Katchen, Trevor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674128656 ISBN 13: 9780674128651

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1985

Synopsis

Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah was a widely studied work in the seventeenth century, especially for apologetic purposes. Christian Hebraists and Dutch Rabbis deals with the impact of its study on Jewish–Christian relations. Dionysius Vossius (1612–1633), Guglielmus Vorstius (c. 1610–1652), and Georgius Gentius (1618–1687) constitute a major focus of the present study and attention is given to their attitudes to and opinions of Judaism and, especially, their relations with members of the Jewish community. Their study of Maimonides’ code was not without issue, and the present work ultimately turns on the instruction that Rabbis Menasseh ben Israel, Isaac Aboab, and Moses Raphael d’Aguilar provided these Christians, and on the repercussions of the Hebraists’ study of the Mishneh Torah on the life of the Jewish communities of Amsterdam, Hamburg, and London.

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This work, a complex exposition of Jewish philosophical methodology and doctrine completed in 1190 and translated from Arabic into Latin within three decades of the author's lifetime, made him a widely celebrated figure in the scholastic capitals of Europe.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674128656
• ISBN 13: 9780674128651
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416