Lawrence Rabone University of Manchester

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The Circulation of Menasseh ben Israel’s Works in Puritan Libraries in England
The Testimony of Late Seventeenth-Century Library Auction Catalogues
in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7227/BJRL.97.2.6
Online publication date:
22 Dec 2021
Issue date:
22 Dec 2021
Number:
Volume 97: Issue 2
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In this article on book circulation, I survey twelve English library auction catalogues from the period 1676–97, in order to show how interest in the writings of the Amsterdam rabbi Menasseh ben Israel (1604–57) continued after his death. I do this by identifying the circulation of his works in Puritan personal libraries. I focus particularly on the library auction catalogues of leading Puritans, notably Lazarus Seaman, Thomas Manton, Stephen Charnock and John Owen. I also show that of all Menasseh’s books, De resurrectione mortuorum libri III was the one most frequently owned by Puritan divines. This article demonstrates how books helped to catalyse the boundary-crossing nature of the Jewish–Christian encounter in seventeenth-century England.

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