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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise /

Groetsch, Ulrich.

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise / by Ulrich Groetsch. - 1 online resource (xiv, 376 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits. - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 237 . - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 237. Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Online, Supplement 2015, ISBN: 9789004289871. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-361) and indexes.

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- 1 From Protégé to Peer -- 2 Among Pagans and Hebrews -- 3 Jean Le Clerc’s Faithful Pupil -- 4 Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius -- 5 How Reimarus Read His Bible -- 6 The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea -- Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Scriptural Index.

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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 Peeling away the layers of Reimarus’s radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement.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.

9789004272989

10.1163/9789004272989 DOI

2014048585


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

B2699.R44 / G76 2015

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