About this title: This text explores the early Jewish confrontations with modernity and burgeoning 18th-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment and the German "Aufklarung". The revival of a textual and linguistic approach to Bible study among Jews, exemplified by the new translation and commentary published by Moses Mendelssohn, was largely reflective of the aesthetic and literary concerns of contemporary Europeans. "The Limits of Enlightenment" demonstrates that this revival was also informed by an acute awareness of critical ...
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Binding: hardcover
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780674534261ISBN:0674534263
Description: Fine. European History. Hardcover. Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies series. Near Fine in tan cloth with brown spine and cover titles, without dust jacket. ISBN 0674534263. read more
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