ELIAKIM BEN ABRAHAM (i.e. Jacob Hart). Milchamoth Hashem

(ANGLO JUDAICA)

David b. Mordechai Halevi

London

1794

FIRST EDITION

Vinograd, London 139; Roth, Bibliotheca Anglo-Judaica , p. 338, no. 21-1

"Wars of the Lord": A polemic against the theories of René Descartes and Sir Isaac Newton from a Judaic perspective. A unique figure in his time, Hart (1745-1814) was the first native-born English Jew who posessed a level of Jewish learning on a par with his co-religionists on the Continent. The author displays a remarkable, if idiosyncratic, familiarity with the science of his day. For a detailed appraisal of Hart’s life and evaluation of his writings, see JHSET, Vol. IV (1940) pp. 207-223; A.J. Karp. From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress (1991), p. 225