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Title: The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture

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Hardcover, 1996

Details
Series:             Harvard Judaic Monographs, 7
Language:        English

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Weight:        1.2 Pounds
Height:         9 Inches
Width:          6 Inches
Thickness:    0.8 Inches



Publisher Notes
This book explores the early Jewish confrontation with modernity and its attendant cultural and religious challenges. Focusing on the burgeoning 18th-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment and the German Aufklarung. The revival of a textual and linguistic approach to Bible study among Jews, exemplified by the new translation and commentary published by Moses Mendelssohn, was largely reflective of the aesthetic and literary concerns of contemporary Europeans.



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Book Details Summary: The title of this book is The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture and it was written by Edward Breuer. This edition of The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture is in a Paperback format. This books publish date is August 1996 and it has a suggested retail price of $18.95. There are pages in the book and it was published by Harvard Univ Pr. The 10 digit ISBN is 0674534271 and the 13 digit ISBN is 9780674534278. For the most current lowest price, Click Here.