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Milton and the Rabbis : Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity / Jeffrey Shoulson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2001]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231123297
  • 9780231506397
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.4 821/.4
LOC classification:
  • PR3592.R4 S45
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Texts -- Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History -- 1. Diaspora and Restoration -- 2. "Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews": Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent -- 3. The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship -- 4. Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity -- 5. "So Shall the World Go On": Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History -- Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first five centuries of the Common Era, collectively known as midrash. In exploring the historical and literary implications of these connections, Shoulson shows how Milton's text can inform a more nuanced reading of midrash just as midrash can offer new insights into Paradise Lost.Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works. He argues that many of Milton's poetic ideas that parallel midrash are likely to have entered Christian discourse not only through early modern Christian Hebraicists but also through Protestant writers and preachers without special knowledge of Hebrew. At the heart of Shoulson's inquiry lies a fundamental question: When is an idea, a theme, or an emphasis distinctively Judaic or Hebraic and when is it Christian? The difficulty in answering such questions reveals and highlights the fluid interaction between ostensibly Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian modes of thought not only during the early modern period but also early in time when rabbinic Judaism and Christianity began.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Texts -- Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History -- 1. Diaspora and Restoration -- 2. "Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews": Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent -- 3. The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship -- 4. Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity -- 5. "So Shall the World Go On": Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History -- Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, Milton and the Rabbis probes the limits of the relationship between the seventeenth-century English poet and polemicist and his Jewish antecedents. Shoulson's analysis moves back and forth between Milton's writings and Jewish writings of the first five centuries of the Common Era, collectively known as midrash. In exploring the historical and literary implications of these connections, Shoulson shows how Milton's text can inform a more nuanced reading of midrash just as midrash can offer new insights into Paradise Lost.Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works. He argues that many of Milton's poetic ideas that parallel midrash are likely to have entered Christian discourse not only through early modern Christian Hebraicists but also through Protestant writers and preachers without special knowledge of Hebrew. At the heart of Shoulson's inquiry lies a fundamental question: When is an idea, a theme, or an emphasis distinctively Judaic or Hebraic and when is it Christian? The difficulty in answering such questions reveals and highlights the fluid interaction between ostensibly Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian modes of thought not only during the early modern period but also early in time when rabbinic Judaism and Christianity began.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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