Some Other Kinde of Being and Condition
The Controversy in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England over the Peopling of Ancient America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5306140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard W Cogley (0000-0002-8404-5825, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 68 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 35-56 |
| Publication date | 2007-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jhi.2007.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2038824416 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay reassesses a well-known controversy in mid-seventeenth-century England about the lost tribes of Israel. Scholars view the dispute as a conflict over a possible Israelite migration to aboriginal America, an interpretive angle which privileges one participant in the debate, Menasseh ben Israel, at the expense of the others, Thomas Thorowgood, Hamon l'Estrange, and l'Estrange's late mentor Edward Brerewood. The essay sees the controversy as a disagreement over two theories about the Native Americans' ancestry: the Israelite, which assumed that the Indians' putative barbarism was an acquired cultural trait, and the Tartar, which held that barbarism was their innate condition
Archaeology · Barbarism · Civilization · Ethnology · Genealogy · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Latin American history and culture · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
William Apess, the “Lost Tribes,” and Indigenous Survivance
Missionary theology and the peopling of pre-Columbian America
Toleration and the Word in Revolutionary England
Reformation, colonisation, and the conversion of the “heathen”
Religion, Political Thought and the English Civil War
Alexander Ross’s Pansebeia (1653), religious compendia and the seventeenth-century study of religious diversity
Philo-semitism and the readmission of the Jews to England, 1603-1655
Origins of the American Indians
Radical Identities? Native Americans, Jews and the English Commonwealth
Prophesies and Politics
The Great Map of Mankind
Les contes persans de Menasseh Ben Israël. Polémique, apologétique et dissimulation à Amsterdam au XVIIe siècle
| Citations per year | 0.46 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |