The Limits of Enlightenment: Jews, Germans, and the Eighteenth-Century Study of Scripture (Harvard Judaic Monographs ; 7)

By Edward Breuer

This text explores the early Jewish confrontations with modernity and burgeoning 18th-century interest in the study of Scripture, Edward Breuer examines the complex relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment and the German Aufklarung. The revival of a textual and linguistic approach to Bible study among Jews, exemplified by the new translation and commentary published by Moses Mendelssohn, was largely reflective of the aesthetic and literary concerns of contemporary Europeans.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674534271
• ISBN13: 9780674534278
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"