Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment

Mulsow, Martin.

Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768). [electronic resource] : - Leiden : BRILL, 2011. - 1 online resource (242 p.) - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 203 0920-8607 ; .

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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.

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.

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Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768.


Jesus Christ--Historicity.
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768--Contributions in studies of the historical Jesus.
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768.
RELIGION / Deism


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