Between Philology and Radical Enlightenment [electronic resource] : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768).
Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 203Publication details: Leiden : BRILL, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)ISBN:- 9789004209954 (electronic bk.)
- 9004209956 (electronic bk.)
- 211.5092 211/.5092
- B2699 .R44 B48 2011
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.
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