Isaac Orobio

The Jewish Argument with Dogma and Doubt

Carsten Wilke

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9783110575613
• eBook ISBN: 9783110577266
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Jewish Theology

The series Studies and Texts in Scepticism contains monographs, translations, and collected essays exploring scepticism in its dual manifestation as a purely philosophical tradition and as a set of sceptical strategies, concepts, and attitudes in the cultural field - especially in religions, perhaps most notably in Judaism. In such cultural contexts scepticism manifests as a critical attitude towards different dimensions and systems of secular or revealed knowledge and towards religious and political authorities. It is not merely an intellectual or theoretical worldview, but a critical form of life that expresses itself in such diverse phenomena as religion, literature, and society.

Further book series of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies are Jewish Thought, Philosophy, and Religion and the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advances Studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: Isaac Orobio, the Sceptic Dogmatiser
• “From Christianity to Judaism” Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication
• Orobio Contra Prado: A Trans-European Controversy
• Clandestine Classics: Isaac Orobio and the Polemical Genre among the Dutch Sephardim
• Isaac Orobio de Castro as a Writer: The Importance of Literary Style in the “Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles”
• From Apologetics to Polemics: Isaac Orobio’s Defences of Judaism and their Uses in the French Enlightenment
• Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul’s “Israel Avenged”
• Bibliography: Studies and Editions of Isaac Orobio de Castro
• Index