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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Reveals the influence of Selden on a number of early modern poets and intellectuals, including Shakespeare, Jonson, Milton, Marvell, Harrington, Stubbe, Culverwel, and Newton; Augments our understanding of Selden as philologist and historian by examining for the first time in detail the post-biblical rabbinic and talmudic studies that constitute his most mature scholarchip.
Full Description
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's superiority and conferred on him titles such as 'the glory of the English nation' (Hugo Grotius), 'Monarch in letters' (Ben Jonson), 'the chief of learned men reputed in this land' (John Milton). Although scholars have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals, including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world. The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is incomplete without acknowledgment of the impact of Selden's uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Hamlet, Henry, Epicoene, and Hebraica: Marriage Questions ; 2. Selden, Jonson, and the Rabbis on Cross-Dressing and Bisexual Gods ; 3. Selden and Milton on Gods and Angels ; 4. Samson's Sacrifice ; 5. Andrew Marvell, Samuel Parker, and the Rabbis on Zealots and Proselytes ; 6. Natural Law and Noahide Precepts: Grotius, Selden, Milton, and Barbeyrac ; 7. Selden's De Jure Naturali ... Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and Religious Toleration ; 8. Selden and Stubbe on Idolatry, Blasphemy, and the Passion Narrative ; 9. Culverwel on Selden's Rabbinica: The Limits of a Liberal's Toleration ; 10. Selden's Rabbis in the Court of Common Pleas ; 11. Selden on Excommunication ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Selden's Letter to Jonson (Jason P. Rosenblatt and Winfried Schleiner (eds.))
