Jewish Christians and Christian Jews From the Renaissance to the Enl

The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews. These essays will demonstrate that the cross-fertilizatio

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ARCHIVES INTERNATIONALES D'HISTOIRE DES IDEES INTERNATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE HISTORY OF IDEAS

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JEWISH CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN JEWS FROM THE RENAISSANCE TO THE ENLIGHTENMENT EDITED BY RICHARD H. POPKIN AND GORDON M. WEINER

Directors: P. Dibon (Paris) and R. Popkin (Washington University, St. Louis and UCLA) Editorial Board: J.F. Battail (Paris); F. Duchesneau (Montreal); A. Gabbey (New York); T. Gregory (Rome); J.D. North (Groningen); M.J. Petry (Rotterdam); J. Popkin (Lexington); Th. Verbeek (Utrecht) Managing Editor: S. Hutton (The University of Hertfordshire) Advisory Editorial Board: J. Aubin (Paris); A. Crombie (Oxford); H. de la Fontaine Verwey (Amsterdam); H. Gadamer (Heidelberg); H. Gouhier (Paris); K. Hanada (Hokkaido University); W. Kirsop (Melbourne); P.O. Kristeiler (Columbia University); Elisabeth Labrousse (Paris); A. Lossky (Los Angeles); J. Malarczyk (Lublin); E. de Olaso (CLF. Buenos Aires); J. Orcibal (Paris); Wolfgang Rod (Munchen); G. Rousseau (Los Angeles); H. Rowen (Rutgers University, N.J.); J.P. Schobinger (Zurich); T. Verbeek (Nijmegen); J. Tans (Groningen)

JEWISH CHRISTIANS AND CHRISTIAN JEWS From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Edited by

RICHARD H. POPKIN University of California, Las Angeles, California, U.SA

and GORDON M. WEINER Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, U.SA

...

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SPRINGER SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jewlsh Chrlstlans and Chrlstlan Jews fram the Renalssance to the Enllghtenment I edlted by Richard H. Papkln and Gardon M. Welner. p. cm. -- (Archlves Internatlanales d 'hlstalre des Idees = International archlves of the hlstory af Ideas ; 138) Includes blbllagraphlcal references and Index. ISBN 978-94-010-4394-6 ISBN 978-94-011-0912-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-011-0912-3

1. Jewish Christians--Eurape--Histary. 2. Christianity and other rel igions--Judaism. 3. Judaism--Relatians--Christianity. 4. Eurape--Church histary. 1. Papkin, Richard Henry, 1923II. Weiner, Gordan M. III. Series: Archives internatianales d 'hlstaire des idees ; 138. BR158.J48 1993 93-28326 261.2'6'094--dc20

ISBN 978-94-010-4394-6

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contributors

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Introduction Richard H. Popkin 2. Cabalists and Christians: Reflections on Cabala in Medieval and Renaissance Thought Bernard McGinn 3. The Myth of Jewish Antiquity: New Christians and ChristianHebraica in Early Modern Europe Jerome Friedman 4. Christian Jews and Jewish Christians in the 17th Century Richard H. Popkin 5. The Kabbala Denudata: Converting Jews or Seducing Christia