LEADER 02364nam 2200397 450 001 9910629589303321 005 20230509205453.0 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110576191 035 $a(CKB)5590000001000878 035 $a(NjHacI)995590000001000878 035 $a(EXLCZ)995590000001000878 100 $a20230509d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aIsaac Orobio $eThe Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt /$fEdited by Carsten Wilke 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (134 pages) 225 1 $aStudies and Texts in Scepticism 311 $a3-11-057726-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aIn this volume, six historians explore new approaches to Isaac Orobio de Castro (1617-1687), an Amsterdam physician who was the most widely-read among the early modern defenders of Judaism against Christian proselytizing. He was also the major author who rebutted Benedict Spinoza's Freethought from inside his own Sephardic community. Reflecting on the developments in early modern studies that have appeared since the publication of Yosef Kaplan's seminal monograph in 1982, the authors revisit Orobio's intellectual personality with a focus on transcultural processes, clandestine book culture, philosophical rhetoric, and literary reception. Born in Portugal to Christian parents of Jewish ancestry, Orobio left behind a brilliant career as a court physician in Spain and France when he publicly embraced Judaism. With academic erudition, he translated Jewish religious positions into the eclectic philosophy of the day, using both rationalist and sceptic arguments. His work leaked out into the non-Jewish world and armed Enlightenment philosophers for their attacks on Christianity, showing the impact of Jewish criticism on the early modern quest for philosophical certainty and religious pluralism. 410 0$aStudies and Texts in Scepticism. 606 $aJews$xStudy and teaching 615 0$aJews$xStudy and teaching. 676 $a296.107 702 $aWilke$b Carsten 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910629589303321 996 $aIsaac Orobio$92080323 997 $aUNINA