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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Restoration of the Jews: Early Modern Hermeneutics, Eschatology, and National Identity in the Works of Thomas Brightman
  name:
    name part: Crome, Andrew.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 242 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers the first detailed examination of the life and works of biblical commentator Thomas Brightman (1562-1607), analysing his influential eschatological commentaries and their impact on both conservative and radical writers in early modern England. It examines in detail the hermeneutic strategies used by Brightman and argues that his method centred on the dual axes of a Jewish restoration to Palestine and the construction of a strong English national identity. This book suggests that Brightman’s use of conservative modes of “literal” exegesis led him to new interpretations which had a major impact on early modern English eschatology. A radically historicised mode of exegesis sought to provide interpretations of the Old Testament that would have made sense to their original readers, leading Brightman and those who followed him to argue for the physical restoration of the Jews to the Holy Land. In doing so, the standard Reformed identification of Old Testament Israel with elect Christians was denied. This book traces the evolution of the controversial idea that Israel and the church both had separate unfulfilled scriptural promises in early modern England and shows how early modern exegetes sought to re-construct a distinctly English Christian identity through reading their nation into prophecy. In examining Brightman’s hermeneutic strategies and their influence, this book argues for important links between a “literal” hermeneutic, ideas of Jewish restoration and national identity construction in early modern England. Its central arguments will be of interest to all those researching the history of biblical interpretation, the role of religion in constructing national identity and the background to the later development of Christian Zionism. Much has been written about seventeenth-century English apocalyptic thought, but Crome's patient and judicious analysis of Thomas Brightman breaks new ground. It succeeds in laying bare the hermeneutical logic that fue…
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by Andrew Crome.
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    topic: Religion and culture
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: History, general
  subject:
    topic: Sociology of Culture
  subject:
    topic: Religious Studies, general
  classification: D1-DX301
  classification: 900
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées, 213
  identifier: 9783319047621
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04762-1
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    record creation date: 140507
    record change date: 20151204153750.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-04762-1