Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century by Benjamin E. Fisher
Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century
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Benjamin E. Fisher
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Amsterdam's People of the Book: Jewish Society and the Turn to Scripture in the Seventeenth Century

Benjamin E. Fisher

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The Spanish and Portuguese Jews of seventeenth-century Amsterdam cultivated a remarkable culture centered on the Bible. School children studied the Bible systematically, while rabbinic literature was pushed to levels reached by few students; adult...

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