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The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centred on the Bible. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centred culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Centering the Bible in Jewish and European Culture
1. Amsterdam's People of the Book: From Classrooms to Confraternities
Part I. The Educational Infrastructure: Officials, Schools, and Confraternities
Part II. Education and the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
Part III. Adult Education in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Bible Beyond the Schools.
2. Centering the Bible in Jewish Theology: Salvation and Scripture
Part I. The Christian and Converse Prologue to Jewish Perspectives on Scripture
Part II. Scripture and Salvation: The Connection under Assault
Part III. Saul Levi Morteira and Jewish Salvation: Between the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible
3. "One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture": Menasseh ben Israel, Mathematics, and the Authority of the Bible.
Part I. Biblical Contradictions and Infallibility: Jewish and Christian Contexts
Part II. Old Miracles and the New Philosophy
Part III. The Challenges of Biblical Chronology
Part IV. One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture
4. Opening the Eyes of the Novas Reformados: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, Radical Christianity, and the Jewish Reclamation of Jesus, 1631-1660
Part I. Jewish Readers of Christian Bibles
Part II. From the Preguntas to the Tratado, 1631-1660
Part III. Medieval Precedents
Part IV. Morteira and the Socinians: The Discovery of Judaizing Christians
5 . Polemic and Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira and the History of the New Testament.
Part I. Medieval Precedents
Part II. Jesus and the New Testament in a Rabbinic Context
Part III. The New Testament and Its Greco-Roman Context
Part IV. New Testament Origins
Epilogue: Jewish Biblical Studies in Amsterdam: Spinoza's Origins and the Horizon of Modernity
Bibliography
Index

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      Publisher: Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 24/09/2020
      ISBN13: 9780878201884, 978-0878201884
      ISBN10: 878201882
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centred on the Bible. Amsterdam's People of the Book shows that this unique, Bible-centred culture resulted from the confluence of the Jewish community's Catholic and converso past with the Protestant world in which they came to live.

      Table of Contents

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgements
      Introduction: Centering the Bible in Jewish and European Culture
      1. Amsterdam's People of the Book: From Classrooms to Confraternities
      Part I. The Educational Infrastructure: Officials, Schools, and Confraternities
      Part II. Education and the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam
      Part III. Adult Education in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Bible Beyond the Schools.
      2. Centering the Bible in Jewish Theology: Salvation and Scripture
      Part I. The Christian and Converse Prologue to Jewish Perspectives on Scripture
      Part II. Scripture and Salvation: The Connection under Assault
      Part III. Saul Levi Morteira and Jewish Salvation: Between the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible
      3. "One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture": Menasseh ben Israel, Mathematics, and the Authority of the Bible.
      Part I. Biblical Contradictions and Infallibility: Jewish and Christian Contexts
      Part II. Old Miracles and the New Philosophy
      Part III. The Challenges of Biblical Chronology
      Part IV. One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture
      4. Opening the Eyes of the Novas Reformados: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, Radical Christianity, and the Jewish Reclamation of Jesus, 1631-1660
      Part I. Jewish Readers of Christian Bibles
      Part II. From the Preguntas to the Tratado, 1631-1660
      Part III. Medieval Precedents
      Part IV. Morteira and the Socinians: The Discovery of Judaizing Christians
      5 . Polemic and Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira and the History of the New Testament.
      Part I. Medieval Precedents
      Part II. Jesus and the New Testament in a Rabbinic Context
      Part III. The New Testament and Its Greco-Roman Context
      Part IV. New Testament Origins
      Epilogue: Jewish Biblical Studies in Amsterdam: Spinoza's Origins and the Horizon of Modernity
      Bibliography
      Index

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