Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi : John Selden /
In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense, neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006
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Table of Contents:
- Hamlet, Henry, Epicoene, and Hebraica: Marriage questions
- Selden, Jonson, and the Rabbis on cross-dressing and bisexual gods
- Selden and Milton on Gods and angels
- Samson's sacrifice
- Andrew Marvell, Samuel Parker, and the Rabbis on Zealots and Proselytes
- Natural law and noachide precepts: Grotius, Selden, Milton, and Barbeyrac
- Selden's De Jure Naturali ... Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and religious toleration
- Selden and Stubbe on idolatry, Blasphemy, and the passion narrative
- Culverwel on Selden's Rabbinica: the limits of a liberal toleration
- Selden's Rabbis in the court of common pleas
- Selden on excommunication
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Selden's letter to Jonson, edited by Jason P. Rosenblatt and Winfried Schleiner