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Between philology and radical Enlightenment : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) / edited by Martin Mulsow.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Original language: German Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 203.Publication details: Leiden : Brill, 2011.Description: viii, 234 p. : facsims. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9789004209466 (hardback : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 220.6 22
Contents:
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.
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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"The seven contributions all rely on new manuscript evidence and partly provide editions of hitherto unpublished texts."--Back cover.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.