| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 251 pages ): illustrations |
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Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Chapter 1. Portrait of an Evangelical Missionary to the Jews: Alexander McCaul and His Assault on Rabbinic Judaism -- Chapter 2. Sketches of Modern Judaism in McCaul's Other Writings -- Chapter 3. From Missionizing the Jews to Defending Biblical Inerrancy: The Last Years of McCaul's Life -- Chapter 4. The Intellectual and Spiritual Journey of Stanislaus Hoga: From Judaism to Christianity to Hebrew Christianity -- Chapter 5. The Christian Opponents of McCaul and the London Society: John Oxlee and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna -- Chapter 6. Moses Margoliouth: The Precarious Life of a Scholarly Convert -- Chapter 7. The Jewish Response to McCaul: Isaac Baer Levinsohn -- Chapter 8. From Vilna to Aleppo: Two Additional Responses to McCaul's Assault -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Sampling of Contemporary Christian Authors Cited in Isaac Baer Levinsohn's Polemical Writings -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
"This book is about the English missionary Alexander McCaul, who wrote many works aiming to convert Jews to Christianity. The book is about people who are caught between belief practices: philo-Semitisim, philo-Chrstianity, anti-Semitism, and anti-Christianity"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Published in association with the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
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McCaul, Alexander, 1799-1863.
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| SUBJECT |
McCaul, Alexander, 1799-1863. fast (OCoLC)fst00172703 |
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London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.
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London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews. fast (OCoLC)fst00596382 |
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Missions to Jews -- History -- 19th century
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 19th century
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- 19th century
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RELIGION / Judaism / History
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Christianity.
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Interfaith relations.
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Judaism.
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Missions to Jews.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812297034 |
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0812297032 |
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