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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457447003321

Autore

Gottlieb Michah

Titolo

Moses Mendelssohn [[electronic resource] ] : Writings on Judaism, Christianity, and the Bible

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lebanon, : Brandeis University Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-30916-5

9786613309167

1-61168-214-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (297 p.)

Collana

Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry & The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought

Disciplina

296.3

Soggetti

Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc

Christianity and other religions - Judaism

Christianity and other religions -- Judaism

Judaism

Judaism - Relations - Christianity

Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity

Judaism -- Works to 1900

Philosophy, German - 18th century

Philosophy, German -- 18th century

Judaism - Relations - Christianity - 18th century

Christianity and other religions

Philosophy, German

Philosophy & Religion

Philosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Part I | Polemical Writings; The Lavater Affair and Related Documents(1769-1773); 1 | Lavater's Dedication to Mendelssohn (1769); 2 | Open Letter to Lavater (1769); 3 | From "Counter-Reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" (1770); 4 | Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October



1773; 5 | Letter to "a Man of Rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar),26 January 1770; Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782-1783); 6 | From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum (1782)

7 | The Search for Light and Right in a Letter to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn, on the Occasion of his Remarkable Preface to Menasseh ben Israel(1782)8 | Mòˆrschel's Postscript (1782); 9 | From Jerusalem, or on Religious Powerand Judaism (1783); 10 | From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg; 11 | From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn (1785); 12 | From Morning Hours, or Lectures on the Existence of God (1785); 13 | From To Lessing's Friends (1786); Part II | Writings on the Bible; 14 | From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes (1770)

15 | Introduction to Translation of the Psalms (1783)16 | From Letter to August Hennings; 17 | From Light for the Path (1783); 18 | Selections from the Bi'ur (1780-83); Part III | Miscellany; 19 | On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic; 20 | An Ontological Proof for God's Existence; 21 | A Cosmological Proof for God's Existence; 22 | A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul; 23 | A Rational Foundation for Ethics; 24 | On the Possibility of Miracles; 25 | On the Reliability of Miracles; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index

Sommario/riassunto

An English translation of key works, many never before translated, by Moses Mendelssohn, the founder of modern Jewish philosophy