Between philology and radical Enlightenment :

Between philology and radical Enlightenment : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) / edited by Martin Mulsow. - Leiden : Brill, 2011. - viii, 234 p. : facsims. ; 25 cm. - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 203. 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 203. .

Chiefly papers from a conference held at Rutgers University, 4 March 2006. "The seven contributions all rely on new manuscript evidence and partly provide editions of hitherto unpublished texts."--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From antiquarianism to Bible criticism? : young Reimarus visits the Netherlands / Martin Mulsow -- Edifying versus rational hermeneutics : Hermann Samuel Reimarus' revision of Johann Adolf Hoffmann's 'Neue Erkl©Þrung des Buchs Hiob' / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- The public discourse of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and Johann Lorenz Schmidt in the Hambirgische Berichte von Gelehrten Sachen in 1736 / Ursula Goldenbaum -- Reimarus, the cardinal, and the remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman history / Ulrich Groetsch -- Reimarus, the Hamburg Jews, and the Messiah / Dietrich Klein -- The philosophical context of Hermann Samuel Reimarus' radical Bible criticism / Jonathan Israel -- Living in the Enlightenment : the Reimarus household accounts of 1728-1780 / Almut and Paul Spalding.


Contributions in English; includes documents in German or Latin, some with English translation.

9789004209466 (hardback : alk. paper)


Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768 --Congresses.


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--Germany--18th century--Congresses.

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