Abstract
This is a contextual study of a little-known facet of mid-seventeenth-century philosemitism: a proposal by reformers John Dury and Samuel Hartlib to found a College of Judaic Studies in London, with funding promised by the Commonwealth government in 1649–50. A survey of early links between Renaissance Christian philosophy and Judaism precedes the main focus on projects by intellectuals in England and the Netherlands to foster closer ties between Christianity and Judaism during the 1640s and 1650s. This was to be part of a wider programme of social reform representing perhaps the last historical attempt to advance scientific and practical knowledge within a greater framework of universal spiritual harmony and philanthropy.
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