Title Milton and the rabbis : Hebraism, Hellenism & Christianity / Jeffrey S. Shoulson

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2001] ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 340 pages) 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 Summary 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 insights into Paradise Lost. Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-328) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Knowledge -- Judaism Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Religion SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast Subject Christianity and other religions -- Judaism -- History -- 17th century Jewish learning and scholarship -- England -- History -- 17th century Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 17th century Hebrew literature -- Appreciation -- England Hellenism -- History -- 17th century Judaism in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Christianity Hebrew literature -- Appreciation Hellenism Interfaith relations Jewish learning and scholarship Judaism Judaism in literature Religion Jodendom. Hellenisme. Christendom. England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 0231506392 9780231506397 9780231123280 0231123280 1280598042 9781280598043 9786613627872 6613627879

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