Record Number: 12200

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

When 8 or 9, 'my Father seeing I took Pleasure in learning my Book, he bestowed a Tutor on me ...' Reads Talmud etc. -- 'in all those Books, I made such Progress, that I became the Darling of my Father's Heart'. But 'I then read the New Testament, and compared it with the Old, I found many Prophecies ... fulfilled'

Century:

1700-1799

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1710 and 1 Jan 1723

Country:

Germany and England

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Moses Marcus

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1701

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Intended by parents to become a rabbi

Religion:

Jewish convert to Protestant Christianity

Country of Origin:

Germany

Country of Experience:

Germany and England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Bible (New Testament)

Genre:

Bible

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

12200

Source:

Print

Author:

Moses Marcus

Editor:

n/a

Title:

The principal motives and circumstances that induced Moses Marcus to leave the Jewish, and embrace the Christian faith

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1724

Vol:

n/a

Page:

xvii, xix

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Moses Marcus, The principal motives and circumstances that induced Moses Marcus to leave the Jewish, and embrace the Christian faith, (London, 1724), p. xvii, xix, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=12200, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

None