Sefer Chizuk Emunah – polemic book against Christianity by Yitzchak Bar Avraham of Turkey.

Polemical work against Christianity, and against the Christian claims regarding the Jewish religion. The author responds one by one to Christian claims against Judaism, including their attempt to prove their beliefs from the Holy texts, their claims regarding Jesus’s being Messiah, and more.

The author was a Karaite scholar, and this is the only Karaite work that was not banned across the Diaspora, and was even translated into Yiddish because of its strongly worded criticism of Christianity.

Overall Great condition. some stains, text block detached from binding, original parchment binding rubbed out on edges and damaged spine.12 Cm.

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Polemic-Miniature. Chizuk Emunah, a strongly worded polemic against Christianity—Amsterdam 1705.

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