Dark History of Penn’s Woods: Murder, Madness, and Misadventure in Southeastern Pennsylvania by Jennifer L. Green (review)

Abstract

pounded by the compositional style, as Ogren frequently introduces new people and books without context and only later provides background. Scholars writing about Keith or the other figures represented will want to carefully study the relevant chapters and especially the documents in the appendix. Specialists in Christian Kabbalah will be interested in the whole book. Despite its limitations, Kabbalah and the Founding of America makes a meaningful contribution to our understanding of early American Protestant thinkers, reminding us that the Puritans were not radically independent thinkers forging a new path in the New World, but rather participants in the international intellectual milieux of which Christian Kabbalah was a part.