De Resurrectione Mortuorum

Estimate

$500–$700

Hammer price

$550

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author

MENASSEH BEN ISRAEL.

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Place

Amsterdam

Publication

1636

references

Silva Rosa 25

summary

The Amsterdam Jewish community at this time was comprised primarily of Marranos, who in their Iberian homeland knew Judaism, if at all, only through the lens of the Old Testament. Since the doctrine of the resurrection of the dead is not elucidated in the Bible, many of the newly arrived Marranos came to doubt the belief in an After-life. In response to these skeptics (especially Uriel Acosta), Menasseh marshalled proofs from throughout Judaic literature as to the existence of a World to Come. See C. Roth, A Life of Menasseh ben Israel (1945) pp. 91-4

pp. (24), 346, (6). Lightly browned. Recent tree-calf with morocco spine-labels. 12mo

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