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Nadler S. Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions. J Hist Ideas. 2019;80(4):533-554doi: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0030.
Nadler, S. (2019). Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions. Journal of the history of ideas, 80(4), 533-554. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2019.0030
Nadler, Steven. "Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions." Journal of the history of ideas vol. 80,4 (2019): 533-554. doi: https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2019.0030
Nadler S. Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions. J Hist Ideas. 2019;80(4):533-554. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0030. PMID: 31607686.
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J Hist Ideas. 2019;80(4):533-554. doi: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0030.

Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel: Facts and Fictions.

Journal of the history of ideas

Steven Nadler

PMID: 31607686 DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2019.0030

Abstract

An examination of what has been claimed about the relationship between the seventeenth-century philosopher Bento (Benedictus) Spinoza and Menasseh ben Israel, a rabbi of the Amsterdam Portuguese-Jewish community. The article shows that, despite claims by scholars that Menasseh was Spinoza's teacher and intellectual mentor, in fact there is no evidence for the former claim, and much evidence that the two men were, intellectually, diametrically opposed on certain important substantive questions.

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