Leopold Immanuel Jacob Van Dort A Learned Jewish Christian Man From Dordrecht

Author : Mascha van Dort
Publisher : Mascha van Dort
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789464028386

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Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort, a learned Jewish-Christian man from Dordrecht by Mascha van Dort Pdf

A new, revised edition will be published in 2024. === Biography of Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort, 1712 - 1761. Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort was a learned Jewish-Christian man born in Holland in 1712. He converted in 1745 in Aachen from Judaism to Christianity, and went to Sri Lanka in 1754 to work as a preceptor of Oriental Languages at the Seminary in Colombo for the Dutch East India Company. He wrote three books in German about conversion. However he is most famous as the translator of the excerpts of the Chronicles of the Jews from Cochin, India, and the Hebrew translation of the Quran, which resides in the Library of Congress in Washington. He also allegedly possessed a manuscript called the Iggeret Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai, now in possession of The Royal Danish Library. Until now information about his life was scarcely available. This book aims to give more insights into his life, and to provide context to the aforementioned books and the manuscript. It reveals among many other things that van Dort also translated the Hebrew New Testament, residing in the Cambridge Library. Ir. Mascha van Dort (1968) studied Applied Physics at the Technical University of Delft in The Netherlands. In her work she is inspired to learn more about what makes people tick, in different cultures and different times. She uses a fact based approach and did research in over 14 different archives across the globe to find out everything there is to know about Leopold, while analyzing it afterwards in a framework which connects historical context and environment, personal needs and attitudes to actions and behavior. The book offers unique insights into Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort’s character and uncovers new facts about the background of his works. With contributions of professor Hanne Trautner-Kromann and colorful images of 18th century drawings and paintings of Dordrecht, Aachen, Colombo and Cochin. Hebrew translations and explanations by professor Meir Bar-Ilan.

Author : Hanne Trautner-Kromann
Publisher : Valdemar
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9788797188811

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Iggeret Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai by Hanne Trautner-Kromann Pdf

The Judaica Department of The Royal Library in Copenhagen, Denmark, contains a copy of a letter from the year 53, written by Rabbi Jochanan ben Zakkai, who warns the Jews in Rome against Paul and Christianity. It was thought that the original letter belonged to the learned Leopold Immanuel Jacob van Dort from The Netherlands, who took the letter with him to the holy community of Gogin - גוגין – presumably Cochin on the Malabar Coast in South Western India. However, judging from the content and later ideas and particular words, the letter must be much younger and cannot have been written by Jochanan ben Zakkai. The manuscript itself contains an autograph by the scholar Salomo Dubno, presumably from around 1800. The analysis of the letter shows that it is composed according to the classical rhetorical pattern and that the main purpose is to warn the Jews against apostasy and especially to encourage them to keep their Jewish faith. It has not proven possible to date or place the letter with certainty, but it might be as late as from the 18th century. Hopefully, another scholar will some day be able to solve the enigmas of this remarkable letter, which falls within the tradition of Medieval Jewish polemics against Christianity.

Author : Rev. A. Bernstein B.D.
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465505118

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Some Jewish Witnesses for Christ by Rev. A. Bernstein B.D. Pdf

Author : Stefan C. Reif,Andreas Lehnardt,Avriel Bar-Levav
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110377484

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Death in Jewish Life by Stefan C. Reif,Andreas Lehnardt,Avriel Bar-Levav Pdf

Jewish customs and traditions about death, burial and mourning are numerous, diverse and intriguing. They are considered by many to have a respectable pedigree that goes back to the earliest rabbinic period. In order to examine the accurate historical origins of many of them, an international conference was held at Tel Aviv University in 2010 and experts dealt with many aspects of the topic. This volume includes most of the papers given then, as well as a few added later. What emerges are a wealth of fresh material and perspectives, as well as the realization that the high Middle Ages saw a set of exceptional innovations, some of which later became central to traditional Judaism while others were gradually abandoned. Were these innovations influenced by Christian practice? Which prayers and poems reflect these innovations? What do the sources tell us about changing attitudes to death and life-after death? Are tombstones an important guide to historical developments? Answers to these questions are to be found in this unusual, illuminating and readable collection of essays that have been well documented, carefully edited and well indexed.

Author : Charles Taliaferro
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268093778

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The Golden Cord by Charles Taliaferro Pdf

The title of Charles Taliaferro’s book is derived from poems and stories in which a person in peril or on a quest must follow a cord or string in order to find the way to happiness, safety, or home. In one of the most famous of such tales, the ancient Greek hero Theseus follows the string given him by Ariadne to mark his way in and out of the Minotaur’s labyrinth. William Blake's poem “Jerusalem” uses the metaphor of a golden string, which, if followed, will lead one to heaven itself. Taliaferro extends Blake’s metaphor to illustrate the ways we can link what we see, feel, and do with deep spiritual realities. Taliaferro offers a foundational case for the recognition of the experience of the eternal God of Christianity, in which God is understood as the fount of all goodness and the subject and object of our best love, revealed through scripture, tradition, philosophical reflection, and encountered in everyday events. He addresses philosophical obstacles to the recognition of such experiences, especially objections from the “new atheists,” and explores the values involved in thinking and experiencing God as eternal. These include the belief that the eternal goodness of God subordinates temporal goods, such as the pursuit of fame and earthly glory; that God is the essence of life; and that the eternal God hallows domestic goods, blessing the everyday goods of ordinary life. An exploration of the moral and spiritual riches of the Christian tradition as an alternative to materialism and naturalism, The Golden Cord brings an originality and depth to the debate in accessible and engaging prose.

Author : Richard Henry Popkin,G.M. Weiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0792324528

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Jewish Christians and Christian Jews by Richard Henry Popkin,G.M. Weiner Pdf

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-fertilization of these two religions, which for so long had a tradition of hostility towards each other, not only affected developments within the two groups but in many ways foreshadowed the emergence of the Enlightenment and the evolution of modern religious freedom.

Author : Birgit Bergmann
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642224645

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Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German Speaking Academic Culture by Birgit Bergmann Pdf

A companion publication to the international exhibition "Transcending Tradition: Jewish Mathematicians in German-Speaking Academic Culture", the catalogue explores the working lives and activities of Jewish mathematicians in German-speaking countries during the period between the legal and political emancipation of the Jews in the 19th century and their persecution in Nazi Germany. It highlights the important role Jewish mathematicians played in all areas of mathematical culture during the Wilhelmine Empire and the Weimar Republic, and recalls their emigration, flight or death after 1933.

Author : George R. Goldner,Lee Hendrix,Kelly Pask
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-08
Category : Drawing
ISBN : 9780892362196

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European Drawings 2 by George R. Goldner,Lee Hendrix,Kelly Pask Pdf

The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

Author : Ian Hacking
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521388848

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The Taming of Chance by Ian Hacking Pdf

This book combines detailed scientific historical research with characteristic philosophic breadth and verve.

Author : M. Alam
Publisher : Springer
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230101371

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Israeli Exceptionalism by M. Alam Pdf

This book discusses the small band of European Zionists, who entered the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state and considers how, at that time in Europe, Jewish-Gentile frictions were local problems, whilst today in Israel they have come to form the pivot of global conflict.

Author : Samuel Moyn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674256521

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The Last Utopia by Samuel Moyn Pdf

Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.

Author : David Freedberg,Jan de Vries
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892362011

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Art in History/History in Art by David Freedberg,Jan de Vries Pdf

Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.

Author : Michiel van Groesen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107061170

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The Legacy of Dutch Brazil by Michiel van Groesen Pdf

Argues that Dutch Brazil is integral to Atlantic history and made an impact well beyond the colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.

Author : M. Weber
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9785871296189

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The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism by M. Weber Pdf

Author : Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 799 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004449343

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Suffering Time: Philosophical, Kabbalistic, and Ḥasidic Reflections on Temporality by Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

No one theory of time is pursued in the essays of this volume, but a major theme that threads them together is Wolfson’s signature idea of the timeswerve as a linear circularity or a circular linearity, expressions that are meant to avoid the conventional split between the two temporal modalities of the line and the circle.