The Specter of Democracy What Marx and Marxists Haven't Understood and Why
| Author/creator | Howard, Dick, 1943- Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Columbia University Press |
| Description | 368 p. 23.400 x 018.000 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation <p>Taking as its starting point the long-standing characterization of Milton as a "Hebraic" writer, <i>Milton and the Rabbis</i> 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 <i>Paradise Lost.</i></p><p>Shoulson is unconvinced of a direct link between a specific collection of rabbinic writings and Milton's works. He argues that many of Milton's poetic ideas that parallel midrash are likely to have entered Christian discourse not only through early modern Christian Hebraicists but also through Protestant writers and preachers without special knowledge of Hebrew. At the heart of Shoulson's inquiry lies a fundamental question: When is an idea, a theme, or an emphasis distinctively Judaic or Hebraic and when is it Christian? The difficulty in answering such questions reveals and highlights the fluid interaction between ostensibly Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian modes of thought not only during the early modern period but also early in time when rabbinic Judaism and Christianity began.</p> |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2002018889 |
| ISBN | 9780231124843 |
| ISBN | 0231124848 (Trade Cloth) Active Record |
| Standard identifier# | 9780231124843 |
| Stock number | 00006325 |
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