Mendelssohn and the Protestant Pedants: The Skeptical Rabbis, the Principle of Noncontradiction, and Judaism’s Spiritual Dialogue

This study explores the extent to which Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem engages with Protestant sources in its portrayal of rabbinic tradition, which will allow further light to be shed on the pivotal role of rabbinic Judaism and its representations within the emotionally charged polemics surrounding Jewish...

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Main Author: Strauss, Zeʾev 1986- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2023
In: Harvard theological review
Year: 2023, Volume: 116, Issue: 4, Pages: 599-625
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Mendelssohn, Moses 1729-1786 / Rabbinic Judaism / Protestantism / Truth / Contradiction
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
AX Inter-religious relations
BH Judaism
CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations
KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Christian W. von Dohm
B Johann D. Michaelis
B Rabbinic Judaism
B Jewish Enlightenment
B Johann A. Eisenmenger
B the principle of noncontradiction
B Jewish emancipation
B Moses Mendelssohn
B Skepticism
B Religious Pluralism
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