Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira's Sermons to a Congregation of “New Jews” (Monographs of the Hebrew Union College) [1 ed.] 0822963736, 9780822963738
Exile in Amsterdam is based on a rich, extensive, and previously untapped source for one of the most important and fasci
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface: A Tale of Three Sabbaticals
The Preacher
1. Morteira's Historical Image
2. The Manuscript/s
3. In the Preacher's Workshop
4. The Sermon as Oral Performance
The Community
5. Reflecting Life: Individuals, Events, Institutions
6. Shaping Life: The Rhetoric of Rebuke
From Past to Future
7. Homiletical Uses of Historical Memory
8. Christianity and the "New Christians"
9. Exile and Its Culmination
The Texts
"The Dust of the Earth"
"The Land Shudders"
"Do Not Add To His Words"
"When They Agitated Against God" [with facsimile of the original manuscript]
"Guarded Him as the Pupil of His Eye"
"They Provoked My Jealousy With a Non-God"
Eulogy for David Masiah
Eulogy for Moses de Mercado
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Passages Cited
General Index
Contents
Preface: A Tale of Three Sabbaticals
The Preacher
1. Morteira's Historical Image
2. The Manuscript/s
3. In the Preacher's Workshop
4. The Sermon as Oral Performance
The Community
5. Reflecting Life: Individuals, Events, Institutions
6. Shaping Life: The Rhetoric of Rebuke
From Past to Future
7. Homiletical Uses of Historical Memory
8. Christianity and the "New Christians"
9. Exile and Its Culmination
The Texts
"The Dust of the Earth"
"The Land Shudders"
"Do Not Add To His Words"
"When They Agitated Against God" [with facsimile of the original manuscript]
"Guarded Him as the Pupil of His Eye"
"They Provoked My Jealousy With a Non-God"
Eulogy for David Masiah
Eulogy for Moses de Mercado
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Passages Cited
General Index
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© Copyright 2005 by the Hebrew Union College Press Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion This paperback edition, 2015 ISBN 13: 978-0-8229-6373-8 ISBN 10: 0-8229-6373-6 Printed on acid free paper in the United States of America Typeset by Posner and Sons Ltd., Jerusalem, Israel