Christian Zionism and English National Identity, 1600–1850

Andrew Crome is Lecturer in Early Modern History at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. He is author of The Restoration of the Jews (2014) and editor of Prophecy and Eschatology in the Transatlantic World (2016). He also writes on religion, contemporary popular culture, and fandom, and is co-editor of Religion and Doctor Who (2013).

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: “Shall they return to Jerusalem againe?”: Jewish Restoration in Early Modern English Thought.- Chapter 3: “Honor them whom God Honoreth”: The Whitehall Conference on Jewish Readmission, 1655.- Chapter 4: “See with your own Eyes, and Believe your Bibles”: The Jew Bill Controversy of 1753.- Chapter 5: “Ignorance, Infatuation, and, perhaps, Insanity!”: Jewish Restoration and National Crisis, 1793-1795.- Chapter 6: “Direct the Eyes of the Jews to England”: The Jerusalem Bishopric Controversy, 1840-1841.- Chapter 7: Conclusion.

“The book’s contemporary relevance, and its extensive engagement with secondary literature and historiographical debates, means that it is another book I would be obliged to add to the ‘must-read’ section of any reading list on this topic.” (Lawrence Rabone, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, August 17, 2020)“Andrew Crome’s work is an important addition to this reappraisal of the Anglo-American Christian Zionist tradition. … Crome’s book will be read with profit by religious historians, but it also makes an important contribution to the historiography of the nation-state.” (Martin Spence, Fides et Historia, Vol. 51 (1), 2019)