Pierre Bayle interprète de l’hétérodoxie juive à l’aube des Lumières

The Jewish diaspora of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had a privileged counterpart in and received an exceptionally warm welcome from the other diaspora of the same period, the Huguenot Refuge. Looking at the articles on “Bodin,” “Acosta” and the “Sadducéens,” this contribution examines the image of Jewish dissidence that Pierre Bayle conveyed in his works: that of the Jews in relation to Christian culture and, on the other hand, that of certain Jews vis-à-vis Orthodox Judaism.