No Religion without Idolatry: Mendelssohn's Jewish Enlightenment

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Abbt, Thomas, 48, 260n Abraham, patriarch, 18, 100 Abraham, son of Maimonides, 114, 133, 167, 228 adoration. See worship afterlife. See religion, natural; soul, immortality of Albo, Joseph, 111, 249n, 286n algebra. See mathematics Altmann, Adolf, 234 Altmann, Alexander, 11–12, 16, 120–21, 173, 233–35, 252n, 287n, 293n, 294n, 304n anthropomorphism, 186–87, 189, 301n Aristotle, 46, 257n, 265n Ark of the covenant. See covenant, Ark of Arkush, Allan, 250n, 251n, 256n, 261n, 262n, 270n, 271n, 287–88n atheism, 56–57, 262n, 302n Bachya ben Joseph ibn Pakuda. See Pakuda, ibn, Bachya ben Joseph Bacon, Francis, 138 balance of reason, 55, 61–63, 263–64n ban )‫(חרם‬, 220 baptism. See sacrament Batnitzky, Leora, 251n Baumgarten, Sigmund Jacob, 271n Beattie, James, 255n beauty, 19, 28, 58–59, 62, 65, 202–6, 209, 227 Becker, Sophie, 59, 207–8, 238, 263n Ben-Zakkai, Yochanan, 280n Bolzano, Bernard, 80, 269n bon sens. See common sense Carnap, Rudolf, 259–60n Cassirer, Ernst, 192–95, 252n, 260n, 261n, 267n, 297n categories, 17, 66, 74–76, 103, 204, 217–18, 257–58n ceremonial law, 9, 11, 18–19, 100–101, 112, 135–58, 162, 262n, 297n “living script,” 9, 11, 46–48, 145 Chassidism and Chassidim, 211, 214, 215–17, 234 cherubim, 128, 164–65 chosenness of Jewish people, 80, 108, 111–12, 142, 149, 157–58, 200, 233, 287n, 296n Christianity, 4–6, 54, 87, 135, 158–59, 167, 170, 192–97, 208, 241, 299–300n, 305–6n Catholicism, 4, 172, 177–80, 184, 194, 196, 227, 285n, 296–97n Protestantism, 158, 183–84, 227, 298n church and state, 56–58, 174–75, 177–79, 262–63n, 294n I N D E X The abbreviation “n” designates one or more notes on the indicated pages. 327 328 Index circumcision. See under covenant Cohen, Hermann, 4, 10, 163, 225, 261n, 299n Cohen, Raphael, 180, 188, 195, 220 commandments. See precepts and commandments common sense, 12–17, 21–22, 26–33, 40, 41–43, 53, 55, 63, 66–67, 70–71, 78–80, 83, 152, 223, 225–26, 251–58n, 268–69n community, 2, 15, 18–20, 61, 140, 145, 152, 153–54, 164, 189, 191, 197, 219–23, 227–28, 231–32, 233, 271n Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de, 43, 49, 90–96, 106, 273–74n Consequenzerey, 49–53, 232 controversy, 43–49, 85, 96 covenant )‫(ברית‬, 133–34, 147 with Abra)ha(m, 96–101, 133–34 Ark of the, 125, 164–65, 280n circumcision, 99, 132–34, 150–52, 283n Cranz, August Friedrich, 174–77, 241, 294n creation. See religion, natural cross and crucifix, 5, 8, 170, 184, 190, 201 Dan, Joseph, 170, 291n David, king of Israel, 237, 241, 243, 307n Descartes, René, 26, 252n, 257n, 269n dogmatic rationalism and empirical skepticism in Maimon, 21, 68–76, 267n Dov Bär of Mesritch )“The Great Maggid”(, 215 Dubno, Shlomo, 189, 272n, 279n Du Marsais, César Chesneau, 56 Eckarthausen, Karl von, 171 Eisen, Arnold, 250n Emden, Jacob, 111, 261n, 277n Enlightenment and enlighteners, 7, 15, 19, 126, 189–94, 197–201, 233–35 enthusiasm, 57, 171–72, 191, 247n Erlewine, Robert, 250n Eucharist. See sacrament Euchel, Isaac )Itzig(, 255n fanaticism. See enthusiasm Frederic II, king of Prussia, 82, 84 Friedländer, David, 158 fringes. See ritual articles, tsitsit geometry. See mathematics Gikatilla, Josef ben Abraham, 289n golden calf, sin of, 18, 11, 109–15, 118–21, 124–26, 138–39, 166, 176–77, 243, 276n Gottlieb, Michah, 253n, 262–63n Guttmann, Julius, 10–11, 251n, 252–53n, 257n, 265n, 287n Ha’ari. See Luria, Yitzchak Halakhah. See ceremonial law Halbertal, Moshe, 248n, 279n, 299n Halevi, Judah, 90–92, 113, 114, 130, 165, 243–45, 269n, 275n, 277n, 307n Hamann, Johann Georg, 267n, 306n Hebrew )language, letters, cantillations(, 19, 17, 91–92, 97–106, 119–21, 137, 165–68, 173, 181, 260n, 275n, 290n, 293n Heidegger, Martin, 259n Heine, Heinrich, 61, 179–80, 184, 288n Herder, Johann Gottfried, 199–200, 306n Index 329 hieroglyphics. See script, hieroglyphic Hilfrich, Carola, 251n Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 10, 248n, 292–93n, 304n Hobbes, Thomas, 42, 177, 178, 236, 242, 262n, 305n Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’, 56 Homberg, Naphtali Herz, 110, 177, 236–37, 275–77n, 284n, 288n, 296n, 304–5n hypocrisy, 54–55, 68, 86, 232–34 Ibn Ezra, Abraham, 113, 126, 128, 129, 130, 143, 278n, 279n, 280n, 286n, 289n Idel, Moshe, 168, 290n, 292n idolatry, 2–20, 45, 124–27, 161–63...