ISBN: 9780691033402 - torah and law in paradise lost (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 274 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine blue and black with black, white, and blue lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Rubbing to edges and corners of dust jacket. Mild wear to head and tail of book spine and to bottom corners of boards. Light scuffing to edges of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Literary Criticism. 1381902. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.…

First edition. xi+274 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. It has been the fate of Milton, the most Hebraic of the great English poets, to have been interpreted in this century largely by those inhospitable to his Hebraism. To remedy this, Jason Rosenblatt reveals Milton's epic representations of paradise and the fallen world to be the supreme co-ordinates of an interpretive struggle, in which Jewish beliefs that the Hebrew Bible was eternally authoritative Torah were set against the Christian view that it was a temporary law superseded by the New Testament. Arguing that the Milton of the 1643-1645 prose tracts saw the Hebrew Bible from the Jewish perspective, Rosenblatt shows that these tracts are the principal doctrinal matrix of the middle books of "Paradise Lost", which present the Hebrew Bible and Adam and Eve as self-sufficient entities.…