Exile in Amsterdam : Saul Levi Morteira's sermons to a congregation of "new Jews" / Marc Saperstein.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: Monographs of the Hebrew Union College ; no. 32.Publication details: Cincinnati : Hebrew Union College Press ; Detroit, MI : Distributed by Wayne State University Press, �2005.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
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- 9780878201259
- 0878201254
- Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660
- Mortera, Saul Levi, 1596?-1660
- Jewish preaching -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History -- 17th century
- Jews, Portuguese -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
- Jewish sermons, Hebrew -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- History and criticism
- Jewish sermons, Hebrew -- Netherlands -- Amsterdam -- Translations into English
- Pr�edication -- Juda�isme -- Pays-Bas -- Amsterdam -- Histoire -- 17e si�ecle
- Juifs portugais -- Pays-Bas -- Amsterdam
- Jewish preaching
- Jewish sermons, Hebrew
- Jews, Portuguese
- Netherlands -- Amsterdam
- 1600-1699
- 296.4/7 22
- BM755.M585 S36 2005eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 549-566) and indexes.
Includes translations from manuscripts written in Hebrew.
Preface : a tale of three sabbaticals -- preacher -- 1. Morteira's historical image -- 2. manuscript/s -- 3. In the preacher's workshop -- 4. sermon as oral performance -- community -- 5. Reflecting life : individuals, events, institutions -- 6. Shaping life : the rhetoric of rebuke -- From past to future -- 7. Homiletical uses of historical memory -- 8. Christianity and the "new Christians" -- 9. Exile and its culmination -- texts -- "The dust of the earth" -- "The land shudders" -- "Do not add to his words" -- "When they agitated against God" [with facsimile of the original manuscript] -- "Guarded him as the pupil of his eye" -- "They provoked my jealousy with a non-God" -- Eulogy for David Masiah -- Eulogy for Moses de Mercado.
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