I wonder if anyone can see the devout Jew's 'error'
SHYLOCK. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your
prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into!
TMOV a1 s3
I am surprised this has never been remarked on before.
I wonder if anyone can see the devout Jew's 'error'
SHYLOCK. Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your
prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into!
TMOV a1 s3
I am surprised this has never been remarked on before.
If you're trying to imply that Shylock is saying Jesus ate pork I think you're mistaken. He's referring to a tale that Jesus cast devils into a herd of swine. Mark 5:1-13
Last edited by xman; 01-06-2011 at 09:27 PM.
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No, not at all. I was thinking more on the lines of the word Shylock uses: Nazarite. I thought John the Baptist was one, and perhaps St Paul, but not Jesus. The title 'Jesus of Nazareth' in Latin is 'Iesv Nazarene' meaning 'Jesus (of) Nazareth'. The most famous OT Nazarite was hairy Samson, in the Book of Judges, and there we can read all that stuff about his famous seven locks, but devout Shylock seems to have got it wrong. Funny really, his name, like Samson, begins with S, and it even has a lock, like on Samson's head, and yet Shylock seems to have got it wrong.
Thanks for the comment
Perhaps this is Shakespeare's error and not Shylock's.
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