ユダヤ教への改宗者たち：近代初期の知的環境 Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Mulsow, Martin (EDT)/ Popkin, Richard H. (EDT)

Brill Academic Pub（2003/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 237 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004128835
• DDC分類 296.714094

基本説明

The first contributions examine George Buchanan and John Dury, followed by three studies of th emilieu of late seventeeth-century Amsterdam. The last essay is concerned with Lord George Gordon and Cabbalistic Freemasonry.

Full Description

This volume deals with conversions to Judaism from the 16th to the 18th century. It provides six case studies by leading international scholars on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, "judaizing", reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and secret conversions of non-Jewish Christians for intellectual reasons. With contributions by Arthur Williamson, Richard H. Popkin, Elisheva Carlebach, Allison P. Coudert, Martin Mulsow and Martha Keith Schuchard.

Contents

Introduction, Martin Mulsow & Richard H. Popkin

1. George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire, Arthur Williamson
2. Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury, Richard H. Popkin
3. "Ich will dich nach Holland schicken . . .": Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts, Elisheva Carlebach
4. Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van Helmont and Johann Peter Späth (Moses Germanus), Allison P. Coudert
5. Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism. The Case of Aaron d'Antan, Martin Mulsow
6. Lord George Gordon and Cabalistic Freemasonry: Beating Jacobite Swords into Jacobin Ploughshares, Marsha Keith Schuchard

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