Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England - Rilegato

Guibbory, Achsah

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ISBN 10: 0199557160 ISBN 13: 9780199557165

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2010

Riassunto

Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England is a cultural history of seventeenth-century England. It assesses the complexity and fluidity of Christian identity from the reign of Elizabeth I and the early Stuart kings through the English Revolution, and into the Restoration, when the English Church and monarchy were restored. Throughout this tumultuous period, which included debate about readmission of the Jews, England was preoccupied with Jews and Israel. As the Reformation sharpened national identity and prompted reconsideration of the relation of Christianity to Judaism, English people showed intense interest in Jewish history and Judaism and appropriated biblical Israel's history, looking to the narratives in the Hebrew Bible, even as reformed Christianity was thought to be purged of Jewish elements. There was an unstable, shifting mix of identification and opposition, affinity and distance, in English attitudes towards Jews - a mix that held positive possibilities for Jewish/Christian relations as well as negative. Grounded in archival research, this book analyzes writings ranging from those of Foxe and Hooker to Milton and Dryden, from sermons to lyrics, from church polemic to proposals for legal and economic reform. Literary texts discussed include Herrick's Hesperides, Vaughan's Silex Scintillans, Bunyan's Grace Abounding, Milton's major prose and poems, and Dryden's Annus Mirabilis and Absalom and Achitophel. Attention is also paid to publications associated with James I, Charles I, and Cromwell, and writings by and about such figures as William Prynne, Gerrard Winstanley, Margaret Fell, George Fox, Menasseh Ben Israel, and self-proclaimed prophets such as John Rogers, Abiezzer Coppe, and Anna Trapnel.

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Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England will be de rigueur reading for anyone interested in understanding the tightiy interwoven connections between sacred and secular literature and history as well as religion's major role in shaping English national identity. (Rachel Trubowitz, Clio)

This is an important book that significantly advances our understanding of Judaism's role in the formation of early modern Christianity. It breaks new ground in several areas and should be regarded as indispensable for anyone seeking to understand seventeenth-century English culture. (David Hawkes, Modern Philology)

[A] fine book, a major contribution to the understanding of Early Modern literature, religion, and history, showing many unexpected, revelatory links between works of different kinds. (Warren Chernaik, The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms)

Guibbory's work stands as a notable achievement. (Andre A. Gazal, Sixteenth Century Journal)

[A] large and important book ... It consistently stimulates thought. It should be essential reading for anyone interested in seventeenth century England, literature and history, the history of religion, and interfaith relations. (Jason P. Rosenblatt, Religion and Literature)

Guibbory's study offers a rich, original, and well-researched account of the Hebrew Bible and the history of the biblical Jews as they were interpreted in seventeenth-century England ... This outstanding study deserves to be widely read by scholars and students of early modern English history, religion, and literature. (David Loewenstein, English Historical Review)

[An] important book ... Should be essential reading for anyone interested in seventeenth-century England, literature and history, the history of religion, and interfaith relations. (Religion & Literature)

Achsah Guibbory ... brings to the field refreshing insight ... a forceful study that demonstrates that writing English history without the Jews deprives the subject of an important aspect that would have been instantly recognized by people who lived there then. (David S. Katz, Journal of British Studies)

Christian Identity is remarkable for its determination not to subscribe to any one, simple grand narrative - the map it offers is complex ... what distinguishes this outstanding book and the best kind of history is its judicious fullness and the self-awareness that enables the author not to occlude the alterity of the past even as it denies her the ideal she longs for. (Paul Stevens, University of Toronto Quarterly)

Well researched, thoroughly accessible and carefully structured, Christian Identity presents an important argument about some of the ways that early modern Christians constructed their identity in relation to Israel and the Hebrew Bible. (N.C. Aldred, Notes and Queries)

L'autore:

Achsah Guibbory is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College, Columbia University. Before coming to Barnard in 2004, she was Professor of English at the University of Illinois, where she was also affiliated with the Program in Religious Studies. Author of numerous articles and essays on seventeenth-century culture and literature, especially on Donne and Milton, her most recent books are Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton (Cambridge UP, 1998) and her edited Cambridge Companion to John Donne (Cambridge UP, 2006). Her research for Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-century England was supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0199557160
• ISBN 13: 9780199557165
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 342