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From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro

From Christianity to Judaism: The Story of Isaac Orobio de Castro

Kaplan, Yosef

Paperback

Series: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Religious BiographiesComparative ReligionReligion General

ISBN10: 1904113141
ISBN13: 9781904113140
Publisher: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Published: Aug 12 2004
Pages: 550
Weight: 1.38
Height: 1.12 Width: 5.43 Depth: 8.50
Language: Hebrew

Isaac Orobio de Castro, a crypto-Jew from Portugal, was one of the most prominent intellectual figures of the Sephardi Diaspora in the seventeenth century. After studying medicine and theology in Spain, and having pursued a distinguished medical career, he was arrested by the Spanish Inquisition for practising Judaism, tortured, tired, and imprisoned. He subsequently emigrated to France and became a professor of medicine at the University of Toulouse before openly professing his Judaism and going to Amsterdam where he joined the thriving Portuguese Jewish community. Amsterdam was then a city of great cultural creativity and religious pluralism where Orobio found open to him the world of religious thinkers and learned scholars. In this atmosphere he flourished and became an outstanding spokesman and apologist for the Jewish community. He engaged in controversy with Juan de Prado and Baruch Spinoza, who were both excommunicated by the Portuguese Jewish community, as well as with Christian theologians of various sects and denominations, including Philip van Limborch.

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