Research through some rare 17th and 18th century books in Boston University’s Mark and LIorna Bortman Americana collection won for two graduate students, David April and Edward Bunting, essay prize awards offered by Mark Bortman of Newton in memory of the late Joseph Brin, professor of Semantics at Boston University and for the late Samuel Bortman, Brookline, brother of the University benefactor.
Writing on “The Interests of the New England Puritan in the Jew,” the two students stressed the debt owed by the Puritans to the Old Testament for their ideas in regard to religion and government and Puritan interest in comparing their own wanderings with those of the Israelites.
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