This text was highly topical. Manasseh ben Israel had arrived in England the previous October to negotiate with Cromwell over the return of the Jews to England, which had been legislated in December. MF
asked...
Reception
Margaret Fell
It seems that Spinoza
's earliest publication was a Hebrew translation of this work.
ES
personally placed in the king
's hands a one-paragraph testimony beginning This is unto thee, O King. It was apparently her first venture into writing for print.
