“From Christianity to Judaism” Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Isaac Orobio, the Sceptic Dogmatiser 1
4. “From Christianity to Judaism” Revisited: Some Critical Remarks More than Thirty Years after its Publication 15
5. Orobio Contra Prado: A Trans-European Controversy 31
6. Clandestine Classics: Isaac Orobio and the Polemical Genre among the Dutch Sephardim 57
7. Isaac Orobio de Castro as a Writer: The Importance of Literary Style in the “Divine Warnings against the Vain Idolatry of the Gentiles” 77
8. From Apologetics to Polemics: Isaac Orobio’s Defences of Judaism and their Uses in the French Enlightenment 93
9. Reading Orobio in Nineteenth-Century England: The Missionary Alexander McCaul’s “Israel Avenged” 105
10. Bibliography: Studies and Editions of Isaac Orobio de Castro 115
11. Index 121