No religion without idolatry
Subtitle: Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment
By: Gideon Freudenthal
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Notre Dame, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780268028909
Subjects: Judaism and philosophy; Judaism; Haskalah; Faith and reason; Idolatry; Jewish philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mendelssohn: common sense, rational metaphysics, and skepticism; title: Salomon Maimon: the radical alternative to Mendelssohn; title: The truth of religion; title: The language of action in biblical times; title: Idolatry: Egyptian and Jewish; title: The "ceremonial law" of Judaism: transitory hieroglyphics; title: Idolatry in contemporary Judaism; title: Philosophy of enlightened Judaism; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix; title: Mirror images: Moses Mendelssohn and Alexander Altmann; title: Mendelssohn's messianic allusions; title: The title Jerusalem.