Exile in Amsterdam: Saul Levi Morteira’s Sermons to a Congregation of “New Jews”

Marc Saperstein

Hebrew Union College Press

Contents

• Preface: A Tale of Three Sabbaticals

• The Preacher
• 1. Morteira’s Historical Image
• 2. The Manuscript/s
• 3. In the Preacher’s Workshop
• 4. The Sermon as Oral Performance

• The Community
• 5. Reflecting Life: Individuals, Events, Institutions
• 6. Shaping Life: The Rhetoric of Rebuke

• From Past to Future
• 7. Homiletical Uses of Historical Memory
• 8. Christianity and the “New Christians”
• 9. Exile and Its Culmination

• The Texts
• “The Dust of the Earth”
• “The Land Shudders”
• “Do Not Add To His Words”
• “When They Agitated Against God” [with facsimile of the original manuscript]
• “Guarded Him as the Pupil of His Eye”
• “They Provoke My Jealousy With a Non-God”
• Eulogy for David Masiah
• Eulogy for Moses de Mercado

• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index of Passages Cited
• General Index