«Quando Dio deciderà di redimere Israele»: vera e falsa Redenzione nel pensiero di Isaac Orobio de Castro

Myriam Silvera

doi:10.3989/sefarad.017.014

Authors

Myriam Silvera Università degli Studi di Roma “Tor Vergata” https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6184-2979

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/sefarad.017.014

Keywords:

Philip Van Limborch, Tortosa Disputation, Jewish anti-christian polemics, Return from Babylon, Moses’ Law, Messianism and prophetic literature, Messianism and Maimonides

Abstract

In the article some previously ignored aspects of Isaac Orobio de Castro’s messianic thought are investigated as well as the strong influence by Maimonides on one hand and the anti-Christian arguments on the other. To exemplify we analyze the author’s refutation of the thesis that the Jews’ return to Jerusalem and the building of the second Temple would constitute the fulfillment of the Jewish expectations of a temporal well-being. Such thesis would reject in a definitive way any idea of expectations oriented towards the future. This was the view espoused earlier by Girolamo de Santa Fe in Tortosa and by Philip Van Limborch at the time of Orobio. In rebutting this “false” redemption, Orobio spells out the features and times of the true “esperança” of the Jewish people.

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