Welcome to Central Library, SUST

No religion without idolatry

Freudenthal, Gideon.

No religion without idolatry Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment / [electronic resource] : Gideon Freudenthal. - Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (344 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Mendelssohn: common sense, rational metaphysics, and skepticism -- Salomon Maimon: the radical alternative to Mendelssohn -- The truth of religion -- The language of action in biblical times -- Idolatry: Egyptian and Jewish -- The "ceremonial law" of Judaism: transitory hieroglyphics -- Idolatry in contemporary Judaism -- Philosophy of enlightened Judaism -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Mirror images: Moses Mendelssohn and Alexander Altmann -- Mendelssohn's messianic allusions -- The title Jerusalem.

9780268079758 0268079757


Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.


Idolatry.
Haskalah.
Faith and reason--Judaism.
Jewish philosophy.
Judaism and philosophy.


Electronic books.

B2693 / .F69 2012

296.3092