‘Eser she’elot (Ten Questions)
Eliezer Eilburg
1575
Are we who are in this exile the people of Israel, that is, the worshipers of the God of Israel . . . essentially . . . or in . . . name only? . . . For it seems to me that we are not the people of Israel . . . except in name alone. Nor are we the worshipers of the God of Israel, that is, the God of the Hebrews, or under his guidance at all. . .…
Creator Bio
Eliezer Eilburg
Eliezer Eilburg was born in Braunschweig to a family of physicians. He testified that both his parents studied kabbalah. He moved to Poznań in 1546 and after a brief stay there he moved to Ancona, Italy, around 1552. After leaving Ancona he lived in a few places in Silesia. ‘Eser she’elot (Ten Questions) is a work of religious skepticism, in which Eilburg questions dogmas of Judaism. Apart from this text, he also left a few medical works, autobiographical notes, and poetry.
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