{"product_id":"amsterdams-people-of-the-book-9780878201884","title":"Amsterdams People of the Book","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Centering the Bible in Jewish and European Culture\u003cbr\u003e 1. Amsterdam's People of the Book: From Classrooms to Confraternities \u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Educational Infrastructure: Officials, Schools, and Confraternities\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Education and the Bible in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Adult Education in Early Modern Amsterdam: The Bible Beyond the Schools. \u003cbr\u003e 2. Centering the Bible in Jewish Theology: Salvation and Scripture\u003cbr\u003e Part I. The Christian and Converse Prologue to Jewish Perspectives on Scripture \u003cbr\u003e Part II. Scripture and Salvation: The Connection under Assault\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Saul Levi Morteira and Jewish Salvation: Between the New Testament and the Hebrew Bible\u003cbr\u003e 3. \"One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture\": Menasseh ben Israel, Mathematics, and the Authority of the Bible. \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Biblical Contradictions and Infallibility: Jewish and Christian Contexts\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Old Miracles and the New Philosophy \u003cbr\u003e Part III. The Challenges of Biblical Chronology\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. One of the Greatest Problems That There Is in Scripture\u003cbr\u003e 4. Opening the Eyes of the Novas Reformados: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, Radical Christianity, and the Jewish Reclamation of Jesus, 1631-1660\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Jewish Readers of Christian Bibles\u003cbr\u003e Part II. From the Preguntas to the Tratado, 1631-1660\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Medieval Precedents\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Morteira and the Socinians: The Discovery of Judaizing Christians\u003cbr\u003e 5 . Polemic and Scholarship in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam: Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira and the History of the New Testament. \u003cbr\u003e Part I. Medieval Precedents\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Jesus and the New Testament in a Rabbinic Context\u003cbr\u003e Part III. The New Testament and Its Greco-Roman Context\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. New Testament Origins \u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: Jewish Biblical Studies in Amsterdam: Spinoza's Origins and the Horizon of Modernity \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hebrew Union College Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884911472983,"sku":"9780878201884","price":46.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780878201884.jpg?v=1722534025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amsterdams-people-of-the-book-9780878201884","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}