Download or read book Jewish Thought in the Seventeenth Century written by Isadore Twersky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference on Jewish Thought in the Seventeenth Century, held under the auspices of the Harvard Center for Jewish Studies. The wide-ranging papers focus on such central topics as Jewish law and society, rabbinic authority, the relation between Halakah and cognate disciplines, contemporary developments in Jewish philosophy and mysticism, major trends in polemical and apologetic literature and historical thought, the connection between Jewish thought and the general intellectual background. Like the previously-published Jewish Thought in the Sixteenth Century, this volume is also studded with original interpretations and novel insights. --