RT Book T1 Arguments against the Christian religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza’s Rabbi T2 Amsterdam studies in the Dutch Golden Age A1 Mortera, Saul Levi 1596-1660 A2 Kaplan, Gregory B. 1966- LA English PP Amsterdam PB Amsterdam University Press YR 2017 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/890177147 AB Based on manuscript EH/LM48D38 (Fuks 206) of the Ets Haim Library, Amsterdam. AB "This is the first book to offer a translation into English - as well as a critical study - of a Spanish treatise written aroung 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, the book stages a dialogue between two conversos that ultimately leads to a vision of a Jewish homeland - an outcome that Morteira thought was only possible thorugh his program for rejudaization." -- text on back cover. CN 296.092 SN 94-6298-010-1 SN 978-94-6298-010-5