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UNINA9910461812903321 |
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Autore |
Shoulson Jeffrey |
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Titolo |
Milton and the Rabbis [[electronic resource] ] : Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity |
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New York, : Columbia University Press, 2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (357 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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