Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.

Moses Mendelssohn : writings on Judaism, Christianity, & the Bible / Writings on Judaism, Christianity, & the Bible edited by Michah Gottlieb ; translations by Curtis Bowman, Elias Sacks, and Allan Arkush. - Waltham, Mass. : Brandeis University Press, c2011. - xxvii, 267 p. ; 24 cm. - The Tauber Institute series for the study of European Jewry The Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought . - Brandeis library of modern Jewish thought. Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry series. .

Translated from the German and the Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lavater's dedication -- Open letter to Lavater -- From "counter-reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" -- Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden, 26 October 1773 -- Letter to "a man of rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) -- From the preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum -- "The search for light and right" -- Mörschel's postscript -- From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism -- From letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg -- From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza -- From Morning Hours -- From To Lessing's Friends -- From introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes -- Introduction to translation of Psalms -- From letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 -- From Light for the Path -- Selections from the Bi'ur -- On the religious legitimacy of studying logic -- An ontological proof for God's existence -- A cosmological proof for God's existence -- A proof for the immortality of the soul -- A rational foundation for ethics -- On the possibility of miracles -- On the reliability of miracles.

9781584656852 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1584656859 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Bible.--Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Judaism--Works to 1900.
Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
Christianity and other religions--Judaism.
Philosophy, German--18th century.

B2690 / .A5 2011

296.3

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