Benyamin Dias Brandon’s Orot Hamiṣvot (1753) | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 46 Number 1
  • ISSN: 1781-7838
  • E-ISSN: 1783-1792

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Abstract

This article considers the halakhic work (1753) of Benyamin Dias Brandon, and its posthumous co-editor, Isaac Cohen Belinfante. The article situates this publication in the intellectual Portuguese-Jewish milieu of eighteenth-century Amsterdam and the kinds of scholarship and ideals of erudition that were fostered in its yeshiva. More specifically, the article shows how Brandon’s and Belinfante’s work contributed to a wider tradition of literature, flourishing in the early eighteenth-century, that combined halakhic arguments with polemical defenses of rabbinic authority. This literature built on seventeenth-century precedents, but it also broke new ground by incorporating developments in natural science, such as theories of atomism, into halakhic thought.

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