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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461812903321

Autore

Shoulson Jeffrey

Titolo

Milton and the Rabbis [[electronic resource] ] : Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (357 p.)

Disciplina

821.4

821/.4

Soggetti

Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- 17th century

Hebrew literature -- Appreciation -- England

Hellenism -- History -- 17th century

Jewish learning and scholarship -- England -- History -- 17th century

Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 17th century

Judaism in literature

Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Knowledge -- Judaism

Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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