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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. 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 im

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Author

Jeffrey S. Shoulson; Professor Jeffrey Shoulson

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781280598043

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Religion