Jason P. Rosenblatt is Professor of English at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. His prior teaching experience includes stints at Brown University (where he received his advanced degrees), the University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore College. Publications include Torah and Law in 'Paradise Lost' (Princeton 1994), a coedited book on biblical narrative (Indiana 1991), and more than two dozen essays on seventeenth-century English literature. He is under contract to produce a Norton Critical Edition of Milton's Selected Poetry and Prose. Awards include fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Professor Rosenblatt is a past president of the Milton Society of America and recipient of its Hanford Award. He is married to Zipporah Marton, a registered nurse, and they have two children and three grandchildren.

• Introduction ; 1. Hamlet, Henry, Epicoene, and Hebraica: Marriage Questions ; 2. Selden, Jonson, and the Rabbis on Cross-Dressing and Bisexual Gods ; 3. Selden and Milton on Gods and Angels ; 4. Samson's Sacrifice ; 5. Andrew Marvell, Samuel Parker, and the Rabbis on Zealots and Proselytes ; 6. Natural Law and Noahide Precepts: Grotius, Selden, Milton, and Barbeyrac ; 7. Selden's De Jure Naturali ... Juxta Disciplinam Ebraeorum and Religious Toleration ; 8. Selden and Stubbe on Idolatry, Blasphemy, and the Passion Narrative ; 9. Culverwel on Selden's Rabbinica: The Limits of a Liberal's Toleration ; 10. Selden's Rabbis in the Court of Common Pleas ; 11. Selden on Excommunication ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Selden's Letter to Jonson (Jason P. Rosenblatt and Winfried Schleiner (eds.))

We are indebted to Jason Rosenblatt and Oxford University Press for bringing renewed and wider attention to the remarkable Selden through the publication of this learned book, Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi.