Introduction / Martin Mulsow and Richard H. Popkin -- George Buchanan, Crypto-Judaism, and the Critique of European Empire / Arthur Williamson -- Can one be a True Christian and a Faithful Follower of the Law of Moses? The Answer of John Dury / Richard H. Popkin -- "Ich will dich nach Holland schicken ... ": Amsterdam and the Reversion to Judaism of German-Jewish Converts / Elisheva Carlebach -- Judaizing in the Seventeenth Century: Francis Mercury van Helmont and Johann Peter Spath (Moses Germanus) / Allison P. Coudert -- Cartesianism, Skepticism and Conversion to Judaism. The Case of Aaron d'Antan / Martin Mulsow -- Lord George Gordon and Cabalistic Freemasonry: Beating Jacobite Swords into Jacobian Ploughshares / Marsha Keith Schuchard
Summary
This work deals with conversions to Judaism from the 16th to the 18th century. It provides six case studies by scholars on phenomena as crypto-Judaism, "judaizing", reversion of Jewish-Christian converts and secret conversion of non-Jewish Christians for intellectual reasons
