The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain

by Darby, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9789004184558
• ISBN10: 9004184554
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This monograph analyses almost forty Hebrew Christian institutions - and the ideology of their founders - in nineteenth-century Britain, components of a century-long movement which were to varying degrees characteristic, through identity negotiation, of ehtnic, institutional, theological and liturgical independence.

Author Biography

Michael R. Darby Ph.D. (2005) in Theology, University of Wales, Lampeter, is a private tutor and has had an interest in the history of Jewish-Christian relations for almost three decades.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Literary Responses to Hebrew Christianity	p. 1
Models of Hebrew Christianity	p. 2
Scope of the Study	p. 5
London's Jewish Community	p. 6
Hebrew Christian Foundations	p. 8
Themes and Approaches	p. 31
The Genesis of the Modern Hebrew Christian Movement	p. 35
Joseph Priestley	p. 35
Thomas Witherby	p. 38
Christian Frederick Frey	p. 45
Children of Abraham	p. 57
United Brothers of the Seed of Abraham	p. 65
One of the Second Tribe	p. 68
Philo-Judaean Society	p. 77
Episcopal Jews' Chapel Abrahamic Society	p. 82
The Hebrew Christian Movement during the "Palmy Days" of the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews	p. 97
John Oxlee	p. 103
Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna	p. 113
Stanislaus Hoga	p. 119
Ridley Haim Herschell	p. 124
Moses Margoliouth	p. 135
Albert Augustus Isaacs	p. 140
John Christian Reichardt	p. 143
Nathan Davis	p. 145
Charles Kingsley	p. 149
The Influence of the Hebrew Christian Alliance	p. 151
Christian Israelites' Association	p. 151
Carl August Ferdinand Schwartz	p. 153
Hebrew Christian Alliance	p. 159
Alfred Edersheim	p. 182
Responses to the "Herzl of Jewish Christianity"	p. 187
Influence of Joseph Rabinowitz	p. 187
Hebrew Christian Prayer Union	p. 190
Hebrew Christian Alliance	p. 196
Messianic Zionists	p. 198
Michael Rosenthal	p. 202
Church of England's Response	p. 206
Aaron Adolf Saphir	p. 212
Mark John Levy	p. 216
George Herbert Box	p. 223
Conclusion: Themes and Lacunae	p. 237
Hebrew Christian Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Britain	p. 257
Map of Mid-Century London	p. 260
Bibliography	p. 261
Index	p. 269
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