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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction: Moses Mendelssohn and the Project of Modern Jewish Philosophy | |
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| Polemical Writings | |
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| The Lavater Affair and Related Documents (1769-1773) | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 1, 2 & 3 | |
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| Lavater's Dedication | |
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| Open Letter to Lavater | |
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| From "Counter-Reflections to Bonnet's Palingenesis" | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 4 | |
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| Letter to Rabbi Jacob Emden,26 October 1773 | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 5 | |
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| Letter to "a Man of Rank" (Rochus Friedrich Graf von Lynar) | |
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| Jerusalem and Related Documents (1782-1783) | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 6 | |
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| From the Preface to Vindiciae Judaeorum | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 7 & 8 | |
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| "The Search for Light and Right" | |
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| Morschel's Postscript | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 9 & 10 | |
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| From Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism | |
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| From Letter to Naphtali Herz Homberg | |
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| The Pantheism Controversy (1785-1786) | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 11 | |
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| From Jacobi's On the Doctrine of Spinoza | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 12 & 13 | |
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| From Morning Hours | |
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| From To Lessing's Friends | |
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| Writings on the Bible | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 14 | |
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| From Introduction to Commentary on Ecclesiastes | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 15 | |
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| Introduction to Translation of Psalms | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 16 & 17 | |
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| From Letter to August Hennings, 29 June 1779 | |
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| From Light for the Path | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selection 18 | |
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| Selections from the Bi'ur | |
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| On Peshat and Derash | |
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| Lex Talionis | |
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| On Adam's Sin | |
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| On Biblical Poetry | |
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| The Eternal | |
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| On Commanding Belief In God, Jewish Election, and Idolatry | |
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| On Divine Jealousy | |
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| On Kingship | |
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| Miscellany | |
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| Prefatory Note to Selections 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, & 25 | |
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| On the Religious Legitimacy of Studying Logic | |
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| An Ontological Proof for God's Existence | |
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| A Cosmological Proof for God's Existence | |
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| A Proof for the Immortality of the Soul | |
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| A Rational Foundation for Ethics | |
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| On the Possibility of Miracles | |
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| On the Reliability of Miracles | |
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| Suggestions for Further Reading | |
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| Index | |