No religion without idolatry [electronic resource] : Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment / Gideon Freudenthal.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)ISBN:- 9780268079758
- 0268079757
- 296.3092 23
- B2693 .F69 2012
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.
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