LEADER 03360nam 22005053 450 001 996662860403316 005 20250720090423.0 010 $a3-11-169901-3 010 $a3-11-169892-0 035 $a(CKB)39286654300041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32223160 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32223160 035 $a(BIP)119918028 035 $a(BIP)120649484 035 $a(EXLCZ)9939286654300041 100 $a20250720d2025 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar $eThe Unconventional Life and Thought of Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838) 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerlin/Boston :$cWalter de Gruyter GmbH,$d2025. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (244 pages) 225 1 $aPerspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series ;$vv.29 311 08$a3-11-033693-6 330 $aThis book is a study of the life and thought of the Polish Jew Solomon Yom Tov Bennett (1767-1838), who immigrated to London where he spent the last forty years of his life. In focusing on Bennett's learned life, it underscores the significance of this singular writer, artist, and public figure , especially his remarkable dual interests in art and thought, his biblical scholarship, his social and intellectual connections with some of the most famous and accomplished Christian intellectuals of London, and his self-determination to complete his life-long ambition of serving Western civilization by correcting and rewriting the entire standard edition of the English Old Testament. Bennett's Christian associates respected his learning and were willing to accept him as a Jew in their ranks. His integration into the upper echelons of the Christian literary establishment--dukes, jurists, theologians, and other scholars--did not impede his loyalty to his faith. On the contrary, Bennett's Christian friends made him more Jewish, more convinced of Judaism's moral force, and more secure in his own skin as a member of a proud minority among Christian elites supposedly liberated, so he hoped, from the dark hostility of the Christian past. His supreme act of translating the Bible constituted the ultimate payback he could offer the altruistic Christians he had met, open to welcoming him not despite his Jewishness but because of it. Bennett's transformation from a Polish Jewish immigrant to a proud Anglo-Jew exemplifies a unique path of modern Jewish life and self-reflection, one ultimately shaped by the particular ambiance of his newly adopted country. 410 0$aPerspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts Series 606 $aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION / Biblical Reference / Language Study$2bisacsh 606 $aRELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings$2bisacsh 615 7$aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Translating & Interpreting 615 7$aRELIGION / Biblical Reference / Language Study 615 7$aRELIGION / Judaism / Sacred Writings 676 $a296.092 700 $aRuderman$b David B$0475931 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996662860403316 996 $aThe Making of an Anglo-Jewish Scholar$94405623 997 $aUNISA