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

Milton and the Rabbis : : Hebraism, Hellenism, and Christianity / / Jeffrey Shoulson.

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...

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Shoulson, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2001]
©2001
Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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