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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden (Hardcover)
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Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden (Hardcover)
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In the midst of an age of prejudice, John Selden's immense,
neglected rabbinical works contain magnificent Hebrew scholarship
that respects, to an extent remarkable for the times, the
self-understanding of Judaism. Scholars celebrated for their own
broad and deep learning gladly conceded Selden's superiority and
conferred on him titles such as "the glory of the English nation"
(Hugo Grotius), "Monarch in letters" (Ben Jonson), "the chief of
learned men reputed in this land" (John Milton). Although scholars
have examined Selden (1584-1654) as a political theorist, legal and
constitutional historian, and parliamentarian, Renaissance
England's Chief Rabbi is the first book-length study of his
rabbinic and especially talmudic publications, which take up most
of the six folio volumes of his complete works and constitute his
most mature scholarship. It traces the cultural influence of these
works on some early modern British poets and intellectuals,
including Jonson, Milton, Andrew Marvell, James Harrington, Henry
Stubbe, Nathanael Culverwel, Thomas Hobbes, and Isaac Newton. It
also explores some of the post-biblical Hebraic ideas that served
as the foundation of Selden's own thought, including his
identification of natural law with a set of universal divine laws
of perpetual obligation pronounced by God to our first parents in
paradise and after the flood to the children of Noah. Selden's
discovery in the Talmud and in Maimonides' Mishneh Torah of shared
moral rules in the natural, pre-civil state of humankind provides a
basis for relationships among human beings anywhere in the world.
The history of the religious toleration of Jews in England is
incomplete without acknowledgment of theimpact of Selden's
uncommonly generous Hebrew scholarship.
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