Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on the Texts xiii
5. Introduction: Hebraism and Literary History 1
6. 1. Diaspora and Restoration 10
7. 2. “Taking Sanctuary Among the Jews”: Milton and the Form of Jewish Precedent 45
8. 3. The Poetics of Accommodation: Theodicy and the Language of Kingship 93
9. 4. Imagining Desire: Divine and Human Creativity 135
10. 5. “So Shall the World Go On”: Martyrdom, Interpretation, and History 189
11. Epilogue: Toward Interpreting the Hebraism of Samson Agonistes 240
12. Notes 263
13. Selected Bibliography 309
14. Index 329