Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton

M. Goldish (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

244 Seiten

1998
Springer (Verlag)
978-0-7923-4996-9 (ISBN)

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This book is based on my doctoral dissertation from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1996) of the same title. As a master's student, working on an entirely different project, I was well aware that many of Newton's theological manuscripts were located in our own Jewish National and University Library, but I was under the mistaken assumption that scores of highly qualified scholars must be assiduously scouring them and publishing their results. It never occurred to me to look at them at all until, having fmished my master's, I spoke to Professor David Katz at Tel-Aviv University about an idea I had for doctoral research. Professor Katz informed me that the project I had suggested was one which he himself had just fmished, but that I might be interested in working on the famous Newton manuscripts in the context of a project being organized by him, Richard Popkin, James Force, and the late Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, to study and publish Newton's theological material. I asked him whether he was not sending me into the shark-infested waters of highly competitive scholarship, and learned that in fact there were only a handful of scholars in the world who actively studied and published on Newton's theology. At the time the group consisted mainly of Popkin, Force, Dobbs, Frank Manuel, Kenneth Knoespel, and David Castillejo.

1. Introduction.- 2. The Background of Newton’s Jewish Studies.- 3. Judaism in Newton’s History of Early Religion.- 4. Judaism in Newton’s Study of Scriptural Prophecy.- 5. The Temple of Jerusalem in Newton’s Thought.- 6. Judaism in Newton’s Church History.- 7. Kabbalah and the Corruption of the Primitive Church.- Conclusion.- Appendices.

Reihe/Serie	International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives internationales d'histoire des idées ; 157
Zusatzinfo	XII, 244 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7923-4996-2 / 0792349962
ISBN-13	978-0-7923-4996-9 / 9780792349969
Zustand	Neuware