Jewish Christians in Puritan England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781725261402)

In the seventeenth century, in England, a remarkable number of small religious movements began adopting demonstratively Jewish ritual practices. They were labelled by their contemporaries as Judaizers. Why did this happen? Was it an excrescence of over-exuberant biblicism? Was it a by-product of the Protestant apocalyptic tradition? Was it a response to the changing status of the Jews in Europe? In Jewish Christians in Puritan England, Aidan Cottrell-Boyce argues that Puritan Judaizing was in fact an expression of another aspect of the Puritan experience: the need to be recognized as a 'singular, ' positively distinctive, and Godly minority

Author: Aidan Cottrell-Boyce
ISBN-10: 1725261405
ISBN-13: 9781725261402
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2020
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d