The Question of Religion(s) in Lord Byron's Hebrew Melodies
Abstract
Although many Jewish readers and commentators have recognized Byron's Hebrew
Melodies as pro-Zionist songs since their composition to the music of the Jewish composer,
Isaac Nathan in 1815, there are traces of Christian and Islamic origins beside the Old
Testament that Byron seemed to imitate in his Songs of Zion. Some of Byron's lyrics stem
from Biblical sources, others are not. His characters are derived from both the Old and New
Testaments, and the atmosphere that he presents is sensibly and pragmatically, as many of
Byron's scholars have noticed, derivative from the 'Islamic Levant' which he sought for
salvation after the failure of his relationship with his Calvinist devoted wife Annabella. This
paper is concerned with a textual investigation of Byron's Judaic Songs, attempting to find
evidences of their multi-religious discourse beside its Judaic background
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