TY - BOOK AU - Freudenthal,Gideon ED - Project Muse. TI - No religion without idolatry: Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment SN - 9780268079758 AV - B2693 .F69 2012 U1 - 296.3092 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Notre Dame, Ind. PB - University of Notre Dame Press KW - Mendelssohn, Moses, KW - Idolatry KW - Haskalah KW - Faith and reason KW - Judaism KW - Jewish philosophy KW - Judaism and philosophy KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780268079758/ ER -