TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rauschenbach, Sina
T1  - Confessional divides, cross-confessional connections, and Jewish responses
BT  - Menasseh ben Israel and Daniel Levi de Barrios on De auxiliis and Dordt
JF  - Studia Rosenthaliana : journal of the history, culture and heritage of the jews in the Netherlands
N2  - Studies in the Jewish reception of Christian theological discussions beyond the proper field of polemics are rare and only in their beginnings. Until now, scholars have often argued that Portuguese Jews discussed Christian concepts of divine foreknowledge and human free will because they were either struggling with their own Christian past or sought to help their 'New Jewish' coreligionists to turn into reliable members of the Amsterdam Sephardic community. This article uses the example of the Catholic Controversia de auxiliis, and the Protestant fight over Predestination before and after the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619) to argue that Portuguese Jews such as Menasseh ben Israel and Daniel Levi de Barrios recognised the cross-confessional dimension of the Christian debates on divine grace; they used their Iberian background and knowledge to order and explain what they observed; and they displayed their position as outsiders to deconstruct religious boundaries, imagine alternative religious landscapes, and finally re-insert themselves into their newly created religious maps and orders. The argument is based on a close reading of one chapter of the last volume of Menasseh ben Israel's Conciliador (1651) as well as Daniel Levi de Barrios's poem Libre Alvedrio y Harmonia del Cuerpo, por disposicion del alma (1680).
KW  - Menasseh ben Israel
KW  - Daniel Levi de Barrios
KW  - Early Modern Amsterdam
KW  - Portuguese Jews
KW  - New Jews
KW  - Controversia de auxiliis
KW  - Synod of Dordt
KW  - Remonstrants
KW  - Arminius
KW  - Arminians
KW  - Counter-Remonstrants
KW  - Molina
KW  - Molinists
KW  - scientia media
KW  - grace
KW  - auxilium
KW  - predestination
KW  - free will
KW  - Libre Albedrio
KW  - Libre Alvedrio
KW  - Conciliador
KW  - cross-confessional
KW  - connections
KW  - religious landscapes
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.5117/SR2021.1.001.RAUS
SN  - 1783-1792
SN  - 1781-7838
VL  - 47
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 26
PB  - Peeters
CY  - Leuven
ER  -