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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise
- Title
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise / by Ulrich Groetsch.
- Author
- Groetsch, Ulrich
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Supplementary Content
- 20150615222425
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- Description
- xiv, 376 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits; 25 cm
- Summary
- Over the course of thirty years, Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) secretly drafted what would become the most thorough attack on revelation to date, ushering the quest for the historical Jesus and foreshadowing the religious criticism of the new atheism of the twentieth century. Peeling away the layers of Reimarus’s radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement. By demonstrating the importance philology, antiquarianism, and Semitic languages played in Reimarus’s upbringing, scholarship, and teaching, this new study provides a vivid portrayal of an Enlightenment radical at the cusp of the secular age, whose debt to earlier traditions of scholarship remains undisputed.
- Series Statement
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 237
- Uniform Title
- Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 237.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-361) and indexes.
- Contents
- From Protégé to Peter: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of Polyhistors -- Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg -- Jean Le Clerc's Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane -- Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History -- How Reimarus Read His Bible -- The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not See.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-4335
- ISBN
- 9789004272996
- 9004272992
- 9789004272989 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014048585
- 9789004272996
- OCLC
- 900439078
- Author
- Groetsch, Ulrich, author.
- Title
- Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise / by Ulrich Groetsch.
- Publisher
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 237Brill's studies in intellectual history ; 237.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-361) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9789004272996
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-4335