ISBN:
9783319047621
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XIII, 242 p, online resource)
Year of publication:
2014
Series Statement:
International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées 213
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
Series Statement:
Bücher
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Crome, Andrew The restoration of the Jews
Keywords:
Brightman, Thomas 1562-1607 Criticism and interpretation
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Bible Hermeneutics
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Humanities
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History
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Religion (General)
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Humanities / Arts
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Humanities
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History
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Religion (General)
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Jews Restoration
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Protestantism and Zionism
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Brightman, Thomas 1562-1607
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Brightman, Thomas 1562-1607
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Zionismus
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Geschichtstheologie
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Eschatologie
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Puritaner
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England
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Judentum
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Heilsgeschichte
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Soteriologie
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Puritaner
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Geschichte 1600-1660
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Brightman, Thomas 1562-1607
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Bibel
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Hermeneutik
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 fuelled the rise of Reformed Judeo-centric millennialism. The book deserves a wide readership among scholars concerned with the history of biblical interpretation, Protestant eschatology, English national identity, and Christian Zionism'. - Professor John Coffey, Professor of Early Modern History, University of Leicester Andrew Crome's ground-breaking study of Thomas Brightman offers a new and sometimes surprising account of the development of millennial thinking in and beyond early ...
Description / Table of Contents:
IntroductionChapter 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.
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-04762-1
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