Author: FISHER, BENJAMIN E.
Title: Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century
Description: Cincinnati, Hebrew Union College Press, 2009. 318 pp. Minor bump to upper corner. A very good, clean copy. Hardcover. 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. Discussed are a.o. Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, Menasseh ben Israel and Spinoza. ISBN: 9780878201884

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