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Connecting the Covenants - Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
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Connecting the Covenants - Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England (Hardcover)
Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
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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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