THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, September 11, 1964-31

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Prof. Harold Fisch, head of the tion is achieved through myth-
English department of Israel's Bar- ology," he states:
Ilan University, a distinguished
"From the Hebraic point of
scholar who is an authority on
view, Jerusalem is not a mythical
Biblical lore and on English liter-
ideal but rather one capable of
ature, is the author of "Jerusalem
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resurrection in history through
and Albion—The Hebraic Factor in
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the exercise of our human
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faculties. In this respect, the
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Blake admired, and the many
more Hebraic writers whom he
John Milton's "practical right-
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had not encountered, were more
eousness." the Biblical influences
realistic than he was. Even the
in the writing of William Blake,
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extravagant thought of Robert
Francis Bacon, Sir Thomas Browne,
Fludd and Thomas Vaughan has
John Bunyan, Samuel Taylor Cole-
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an earth-bound character, a prac-
ridge, Jeremy Taylor, Lord Edward
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tical dimension that Blake's lacks.
Herbert, Henry More and many
If it is true that Jerusalem and
others; the Jewish ideas in relation
Albion were joined in marriage
to Albion (England), emerge from
and
(of whatever brief duration) in
this highl • scholarly work.
his
the I7th century, then the union
In the cgtirse of his elaborations,
was consummated not only in
Prof. Fisch draws upon the works
poetry and philosophical prose,
of Philo and Maimonides. He dis-
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but also in the world of politics,
cusses the "ambiguous character"
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of practical science, and practical
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of Puritanism, points to Hebraism
divinity. This is the difference
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between the Hebraism of Blake
pointing out that "for Blake salva-
and that of his forbears in the
17th century."
The subsequent analyses are ex-
tremely important in the evaluation
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of this interesting subject. We learn
that the Hebrew model, "that of
the Wisdom Books, inspired a great
many English prose writers of the
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one man...
early mid-17th century and helped
[three women..,
them to achieve a warmer. more
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morally impassioned type of essay:
style than that available on the
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models of Seneca and Tacitus."
Prof. Fisch indicates: "In the 23rd
Psalm, which Herbert, like many
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another English poet before him,
turned into English prose. we have
those great, simple, and universal
images which vibrate through all
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the levels of consciousness: the
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valley of the shadow of death, the
still waters, the green pastures, the
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overflowing cup, the path through
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the unknown land .. ."'
Developing the theme relating
to Hebrew anthropology, Dr.
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Fisch asserts: "The great name
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associated with the harmonizing
of Stoic and Platonic concepts
with Hebraic theology is of
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course that of the first-century
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Jewish writer, Philo of Alex-
andria. His whole work, indeed
the importance of which for the
Christian Middle Ages (in Clem-
ent and Origen for example) was
immense, is directed to the com-
position of a Biblical theology in
which at all costs the violent,
impetuous, and frequently arbi-
trary God of the Hebrew Scrip-
tures is made to behave with the
sweet reasonables of the LOGOS.
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Philo gave to the term logos the
central place in his system:
through it, the world become one
of aesthetically contrived and
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static order, and through it also
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Man can gain a more intimate
and thrilling contact with Div-
inity .. ."
Dr. Frisch states that "Albion is
always the 'specter' of Jerusalem,
of ideal unity, of the fullest de-
ongiegorpocalgral
velopment of the sense and the
imagination," and he declares: "We
may consider the major revolutions
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of ideas from the Renaissance on-
wards as a drama in which the
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main actors are, so to speak,
Jerusalem and Albion, Albion being
taken in this context as the genius
of western Man linked with bonds
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of love and obedience to Jerusalem,
but occasionally inclined to break
free."
PAUL
The study made in "Jerusalem
and Albion" of the attitudes and
the creative works of Milton is of
special great merit. Describing "the
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Old Testament feature in Milton,'?
Dr. Frisch states that "it is
hebraism which had taught him that
the whole man is involved in the
religious life, that his national and
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religious affiliations are not sep-
arate things but rather aspects of
an organic unity . . Blake's
patriotism, which ran to rather
crazy extremes, was nourished by
similar religious sources .. ."
"Milton's heresies, the strong
compulsion of his Hebraism," are
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documents gathered over a chosen
field, that the law of righteousness
and the doctrine of salvation are
not only offered in Hebraism—but
that the offer has in some sense
Dr. Frisch adds: "Milton was in been taken up by Western Man to
fact no more consistent with re- form a part, and perhaps
a central
gard to his Hebraism than he was part, of his inheritance."
In anything else. There were
"Jerusalem and Albion" is a
Judaizers among the Protestant great work that enriches Hebraic
sects from the 16th century on- study while offering a vast source
wards who wanted to being in of material for all students of Eng-
the whole Mosaic legislation for lish literature.
Christians, but Milton would have
-scorned the attribution of such
notions to himself."
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There is the further comment:
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"He yearned to see something like
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the Mosaic Convenant established
in England both as a moral dis-
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cipline and as a national cult, but
the national traditions of Albion
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were too different from those of
Jerusalem; and at the same time
his use of the analogy between the
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impasse which is reflected in those
striking inconsistencies with regard
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to Hebraism to be found in the
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`De Doctrina Christiana.'
Old Testament doctrines were in-
voked by other writers of the 17th
Century who are dealt with in Dr.
Frisch's book. Basic Jewish prin-
ciples, H• khma (wisdom) legisla-
tion, are inter alia reviewed.
Dr. Frisch's study. in the main,
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seeks "to indicate from an exam-
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Hebraic Influences on English Prose, Poetry
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