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Article: Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi: John Selden.(BRIEFLY NOTED)(Book review)

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RENAISSANCE ENGLAND'S CHIEF RABBI: JOHN SELDEN by Jason P. Rosenblatt Oxford Univ. Press, 328 pages, $99

In 1629, King Charles I dissolved a contentious Parliament and imprisoned nine exponents of individual rights. Among them was "the most learned person in seventeenth-century England," John Selden (1584-1654). Hardly a firebrand, Selden consistently displayed an even-tempered, scholarly detachment from the fierce invective that characterized the speech and writing of his day.

His imprisonment in the Tower gave him time to study in detail the voluminous Babylonian Talmud, some two and a half million words in Aramaic. Selden's resulting scholarly works ...

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