Offers the 1st broad number of conventional and educational Jewish methods to the religions of the realm, concentrating on these Jewish thinkers that really come across the opposite international religions -that is, it strikes past the idea of inclusive/exclusive/pluralistic different types and appears at Judaism's interactions with different faiths.
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