Includes bibliographical references and index.

Singularity and Puritanism -- Judaizing and singularity -- "A Jewish faccion:' Anti-legalism, Judaizing, and the Traskites -- Thomas Totney, Judaizing, and England's exodus -- The Tillamites, Judaizing, and the 'gospel work of separation' -- Conclusion.

In the seventeenth century, in England, a remarkable number of small religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Why did this happen? Was it an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Was it a by-product of the Protestant apocalyptic tradition? Was it a response to the changing status of the Jews in Europe? In Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce argues that Puritan Judaizing was in fact an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a 'singular, ' positively distinctive, and Godly minority. -- back cover.