Isaac Orobio: the Jewish argument with dogma and doubt
"The present volume on the Jewish physician and theological controversist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1787) has its origin in an international workshop held on February 25, 2016 at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Hamburg on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the year of Oro...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
2018
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Studies and texts in scepticism (2)
Année: 2018 |
| Collection/Revue: | Studies and texts in scepticism
2 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Orobio de Castro, Isaac 1620-1687
B Scepticisme |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jewish-Christian controversy
B Religion / Judaism / History B Isaac Orobio B Contribution <colloque> B Sephardic Jewry B Recueil d'articles |
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Cover (Verlag) Cover (Verlag) Cover (lizenzpflichtig) Accès probablement gratuit Volltext (Libre accès) Volltext (Libre accès) |
| Édition parallèle: | Non-électronique
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| Résumé: | "The present volume on the Jewish physician and theological controversist Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1787) has its origin in an international workshop held on February 25, 2016 at the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies in Hamburg on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the year of Orobio's birth." -- p. 1 In this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. He was also the major author who rebutted Benedict Spinoza's Freethought from inside his own Sephardic community. Reflecting on the developments in early modern studies that have appeared since the publication of Yosef Kaplan's seminal monograph in 1982, the authors revisit Orobio's intellectual personality with a focus on transcultural processes, clandestine book culture, philosophical rhetoric, and literary reception. Born in Portugal to Christian parents of Jewish ancestry, Orobio left behind a brilliant career as a court physician in Spain and France when he publicly embraced Judaism. With academic erudition, he translated Jewish religious positions into the eclectic philosophy of the day, using both rationalist and sceptic arguments. His work leaked out into the non-Jewish world and armed Enlightenment philosophers for their attacks on Christianity, showing the impact of Jewish criticism on the early modern quest for philosophical certainty and religious pluralism |
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| Description: | Open Access |
| Type de support: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 3110576198 |
| Accès: | Open Access |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/9783110576191 |