Fanaticism. By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm ...
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Link Singerman ID: supp1191
Year: 1834
Entry: [Taylor, Isaac]. Fanaticism. By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm ... New-York: Jonathan Leavitt; Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1834. 368 p.
Author/Editor: [Taylor, Isaac]
Location: New York, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Fanaticism. By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm ...
Printer/Publisher: Jonathan Leavitt
Language: English
Notes: Ridicules "Rabbinical Judaism, with its lumber of Frivolous traditions," while citing Maimonides in a condemnation of "Rabbinical penances" (pp. 78-79). Contains sections on Jewish pilgrimages to Jerusalem (pp. 100-102), and the Jewish war against Rome, as chronicled by Josephus, leading to the fall of Masada and the mass suicide of the Zealots (pp. 192-210). Rinderknecht 27027.