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Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768).

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 203.Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004209954
  • 9004209956
  • 1283310643
  • 9781283310642
  • 9786613310644
  • 6613310646
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768).DDC classification:
  • 211.5092 211/.5092
LOC classification:
  • B2699 .R44 B48 2011
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Preface; From Antiquarianism to Bible Criticism? Young Reimarus Visits the Netherlands; Edifying versus Rational Hermeneutics: Hermann Samuel Reimarus' Revision of Johann Adolf Hoffmann's 'Neue Erklarung des Buchs Hiob'; The Public Discourse of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and JohannLorenz Schmidt in the Hamburgische Berichte von GelehrtenSachen in 1736; Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History; The Philosophical Context of Hermann Samuel Reimarus' RadicalBible Criticism; Living in the Enlightenment: The Reimarus Household Accounts of 1728-1780.
Summary: Drawing on new manuscript sources, this volume offers seven contributions on Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist, and expert on Judaism.

Preface; From Antiquarianism to Bible Criticism? Young Reimarus Visits the Netherlands; Edifying versus Rational Hermeneutics: Hermann Samuel Reimarus' Revision of Johann Adolf Hoffmann's 'Neue Erklarung des Buchs Hiob'; The Public Discourse of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and JohannLorenz Schmidt in the Hamburgische Berichte von GelehrtenSachen in 1736; Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History; The Philosophical Context of Hermann Samuel Reimarus' RadicalBible Criticism; Living in the Enlightenment: The Reimarus Household Accounts of 1728-1780.

Index of Names.

Drawing on new manuscript sources, this volume offers seven contributions on Hermann Samuel Reimarus, the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist, and expert on Judaism.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

English.