Sceptics Millenarians And Jews

Download or read book Sceptics, Millenarians and Jews written by David S. Katz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the main consequences of recent work in early modern intellectual and religious history has been a discrediting of the notion of a sudden and dramatic transition to the spiritual world of the Enlightenment. Scholars are increasingly examining the underlying spiritual trends and tendencies which confirm the variety and complexity of the slow movement from Renaissance to Enlightenment, and the profound impact of many of the manifestations of intellectual and religious tension during the early modern period. The essays in this volume are a contribution to this process of reappraisal, focusing specifically on the phenomena of scepticism and millenarianism, especially as part of the more pronounced role of the Jews and their culture.