Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman

Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman

Crome, Andrew

Springer International Publishing AG

09/2016

242

Mole

Inglês

9783319380810

15 a 20 dias

This volume focuses on an oft-cited figure rarely examined in detail in the academic literature. It presents important new insights into the development of early modern ideas about a Jewish return to Palestine, and on the formation of Jewish national identity.
Introduction.- Chapter 1: The Literal Sense, Apocalypse and the Jews in History.- Chapter 2: Historicising Allegory: Thomas Brightman and the Historicising Commentary.- Chapter 3: Consistent Literalism and the Restoration of the Jews.- Chapter 4: Tracing Brightman's Influence: Judeo-Centrism 1610-40.- Chapter 5: Tracing Brightman's Influence: Judeo-Centrism 1640-60.- Conclusion.- Appendix: Comparison of editions of Brightman's commentaries.
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