Connecting the Covenants: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England

The first few decades of the eighteenth century witnessed an important moment in Jewish—Christian relations, as influential Christian scholars increasingly looked to Jewish texts to reveal the truths of their own faith. To what extent could postbiblical writings help them better understand the New Testament? And who would best be able to explicate these connections?

Connecting the Covenants focuses on two separate but entwined stories, the first centering around the colorful character of Mos...