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Authors: Adam Sutcliffe, Quentin Skinner (Editor), James Tully
ISBN-13: 9780521820158, ISBN-10: 0521820154
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: February 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Adam Sutcliffe is Chaim Lopata Assistant Professor of European Jewish History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in seventeenth and eighteenth century Europe.

	List of illustrations
	Acknowledgements
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction: disentangling Judaism and Enlightenment	1
Pt. I	The Crumbling of Old Certainties: Judaism, the Bible and the Meaning of History
1	The crisis and decline of Christian Hebraism	23
2	Hebraic politics: Respublica Mosaica	42
3	Meaning and method: Jewish history, world history	58
4	The limits of erudition: Jacques Basnage and Pierre Bayle	79
Pt. II	Judaism and the Formation of Enlightenment Radicalism
5	Religious dissent and debate in Sephardi Amsterdam	103
6	Judaism in Spinoza and his circle	118
7	Spinoza: Messiah of the Enlightenment?	133
8	Enlightenment and Kabbalah	148
9	Judaism, reason and the critique of religion	165
Pt. III	Judaism, Nationhood and the Politics of Enlightenment
10	Utopianism, republicanism, cosmopolitanism	193
11	Judaism and the invention of toleration	213
12	The ambiguities of Enlightenment: Voltaire and the Jews	231
	Conclusion: reason versus myth?	247
	Bibliography	262
	Index	307