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Connecting the Covenants

Judaism and the Search for Christian Identitiy in Eighteenth-Century England [Hardback]

by David B. Ruderman

    • Author

      David B. Ruderman

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      University of Pennsylvania Press

    • Published

      July 2007

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      Connecting the Covenants

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      Product Description

      The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in Jewish-Christian relations, as influential Christian scholars increasingly looked to Jewish texts to reveal the truths of their own faith. To what extent could postbiblical writings help them better understand the New Testament? And who would best be able to explicate these connections?Connecting the Covenants focuses on two separate but entwined stories, the first centering around the colorful character of Moses Marcus. The English-born son of wealthy parents and the grandson of the famous autobiographical author Glikl of Hameln, Marcus was a prominent Jew educated in the Ashkenazic yeshivah at Hamburg. On New Year's Day, 1723, Marcus was baptized as a Christian, later publishing a justification of his conversion and a vindication of his newly discovered faith in a small book in London. A trophy convert, he was promoted by figures at the highest levels of the Anglican Church as a cultural mediator between Judaism and Christianity. His modest successes in the world of the elite clerical establishment were followed, however, by conspicuous failures, both intellectual and material.The second story that David Ruderman tells emerges against the background of Marcus's professional decline.In the end, the prize convert proved to be a theologian of limited ability, far outstripped in sophistication and openness to rabbinic learning by a circle of Enlightenment Protestant scholars. It was not the Jew who had abjured Judaism who was willing or able to apply the Mishnah and Talmud to Christian exegesis, but figures such as William Whiston, Anthony Collins, William Wotton, and the Dutch scholar William Surenhusius who seized upon the ways to connect the covenants.

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      • Author

        David B. Ruderman

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        University of Pennsylvania Press

      • Published

        July 2007

      • Weight

        386g

      • Page Count

        152

      • Dimensions

        158 x 232 x 21 mm

      • ISBN

        9780812240160

      • ISBN-10

        0812240162

      • Eden Code

        1195173

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      • Author/Creator: David B. Ruderman

      • ISBN: 9780812240160

      • Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

      • Release Date: July 2007

      • Weight: 386g

      • Dimensions: 158 x 232 x 21 mm

      • Eden Code: 1195173

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