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Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis - The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Missionaries, Converts, and Rabbis - The Evangelical Alexander McCaul and Jewish-Christian Debate in the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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An examination of the life and work of Alexander McCaul and his
impact on Jewish-Christian relations In Missionaries, Converts, and
Rabbis, David B. Ruderman considers the life and works of prominent
evangelical missionary Alexander McCaul (1799-1863), who was sent
to Warsaw by the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity
Amongst the Jews. He and his family resided there for nearly a
decade, which afforded him the opportunity to become a scholar of
Hebrew and rabbinic texts. Returning to England, he quickly rose up
through the ranks of missionaries to become a leading figure and
educator in the organization and eventually a professor of
post-biblical studies at Kings College, London. In 1837, McCaul
published The Old Paths, a powerful critique of rabbinic Judaism
that, once translated into Hebrew and other languages, provoked
controversy among Jews and Christians alike. Ruderman first
examines McCaul in his complexity as a Hebraist affectionately
supportive of Jews while opposing the rabbis. He then focuses his
attention on a larger network of his associates, both allies and
foes, who interacted with him and his ideas: two converts who came
under his influence but eventually broke from him; two evangelical
colleagues who challenged his aggressive proselytizing among the
Jews; and, lastly, three Jewish thinkers-two well-known scholars
from Eastern Europe and a rabbi from Syria-who refuted his charges
against the rabbis and constructed their own justifications for
Judaism in the mid-nineteenth century. Missionaries, Converts, and
Rabbis reconstructs a broad transnational conversation between
Christians, Jews, and those in between, opening a new vista for
understanding Jewish and Christian thought and the entanglements
between the two faith communities that persist in the modern era.
Extending the geographical and chronological reach of his previous
books, Ruderman continues his exploration of the impact of
Jewish-Christian relations on Jewish self-reflection and the
phenomenon of mingled identities in early modern and modern Europe.
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