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Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity »

Book cover image of Milton and the Rabbis: Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity by Jeffrey Shoulson

Authors: Jeffrey Shoulson
ISBN-13: 9780231123297, ISBN-10: 0231123299
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Date Published: October 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Jeffrey Shoulson

Book Synopsis

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 wr

Albert C. Labriola

Shoulson brings the light of brilliant analysis to numerous vexing issues in Milton's writings.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Texts
Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History1
1Diaspora and Restoration10
2"Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews": Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent45
3The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship93
4Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity135
5"So Shall the World Go On": Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History189
Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes240
Notes263
Selected Bibliography309
Index329

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