Criticism and confession : the Bible in the seventeenth century Republic of Letters

A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and politic...

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Auteur principal : Hardy Nicholas (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : Criticism and confession : the Bible in the seventeenth century Republic of Letters / Nicholas Hardy
Publié : Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press , 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii-464 p.)
Collection : Oxford-Warburg Studies
Sujets :
  • Introduction
  • Prelude: the discourse of critica in the late Renaissance
  • Part I. Debating sacred history in England and the Continent
  • 1. The 'theological vortex'? Isaac Casaubon in England, 1610-1614
  • 2. Philology divided: the controversy over John Selden's Historie of tithes (1618)
  • 3. Conclusion: rethinking historicism
  • Part II. Commentary on the New Testament
  • 4. New Testament scholarship after Scaliger
  • 5. Hugo Grotius: 'historical criticism' in its generic and controversial contexts
  • 6. Conclusion: the myth of 'critical exegesis'
  • Part III. Criticizing the Old Testament
  • 7. Anti-Protestant controversy and the 'ecclesiastical' versions of the Old Testmanet: the case of Jean Morin
  • 8. Protestants and the Septuagint: the failed edition of Patrick Young
  • 9. Critical judgement and theological exegesis: the case of Louis Cappel
  • 10. Cappel's Critica sacra in the confessional republic of letters
  • 11. The London polyglot Bible: synthesis, retrospective, or another controversial intervention?
  • 12. Conclusion: from humanistic exegesis to sacred criticism
  • Coda: from Critica sacra to enlightened Critique?