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Respuesta a un tratado que escrivio un docto predicante de la religion reformada (Response to a Treatise Written by an Erudite Preacher of the Reformed Religion)
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The main foundation that you propose for your doctrine consists of the sin of Adam, in which you believe sin was perpetrated by all of the human species, which was contained in Adam, and of the sole…

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Isaac Orobio de Castro

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

ca. 1670

Subjects:

Polemics, Christianity, Christian-Jewish relations, Sin, Theology, Letters

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Theology, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to Menaḥem Azariah da Fano
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency! Beh…

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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto

Places:

Cremona, Spanish Empire (Cremona, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1574

Subjects:

Polemics, Theology, Rabbis, Community, Letters

Categories:

Theology, Firsthand accounts, Letters
Letter to the Friends of Lessing (On the Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi)
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…

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Moses Mendelssohn

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1786

Subjects:

Philosophy, Polemics, Scholarship, Theology, Enlightenment, Letters, Science & philosophy

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Firsthand accounts, Letters, Metaphysics, Science & philosophy
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Circular Letter to the Italian Jewish Communities
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When there came to our notice the work composed and recently published by R. Azariah de’ Rossi, entitled Me‘or ‘enayim, which contains the sections: “The Voice of God,” “The Glory of the Elders,” and…

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Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1574

Subjects:

Theology, Polemics, Rabbis, Censorship, Letters

Categories:

Theology, Firsthand accounts, Letters