Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill writes in "Judaism and Other Religions: An Orthodox perspective"<ref>[http://www.bc.edu/research/cjl/meta-elements/texts/cjrelations/resources/articles/Brill.htm Source: "Judaism and Other Religions: An Orthodox perspective" by Rabbi Dr. Alan Brill]</ref>
Yaakov Emden is an exemplar of a traditionalist pulpit rabbi and talmudist in Hamburg responding to the Eighteenth century Enlightenment and ideals of tolerance all around him. He stretches the traditional inclusivist position into universal directions.