Overview

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) was the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist and expert on Judaism. How do the different strands of his scholarship fit together? Is there a direct way from critical philology to Radical Enlightenment? This volume portrays the 'whole' Reimarus and shows how exegetical expertise, philosophical reflection, and antiquarian interests came together in the formation of an extraordinarily deep ranging critique of the Bible, fragments of which were published by Lessing in the famous 'Fragmentenstreit' of 1774-78. The seven contributions all rely on new manuscript evidence and partly provide editions of hitherto unpublished texts.

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Author:   Martin Mulsow ,  Martin A. Wilson
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   203
Weight:   0.563kg
ISBN:  

9789004209466

ISBN 10:   9004209468
Pages:   236
Publication Date:   14 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   eng, ger

Table of Contents

Preface 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 Erklarung des Buchs Hiob , Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann The Public Discourse of Hermann Samuel Reimarus and Johann Lorenz Schmidt in the Hamburgische Berichte von Gelehrten Sachen in 1736, Ursula Goldenbaum Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio' 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 Index of Names

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[...] Eine sehr erfreuliche Neuerscheinung, die dazu angetan ist, die Forschung zu Reimarus zu verstarken, der fur das Verstandnis der Aufklarung in Deutschland eine Schlusselfigur ist. Till Kinzel, IFB

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Martin Mulsow, Ph.D. (1991) in Philosophy, University of Munich, is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Erfurt and Director of the Gotha Research Center for Early Modern Studies. He has published with Brill The Berlin Refuge 1680-1780 (2003, ed. with S. Pott and L. Danneberg), Secret Conversions to Judaism in Early Modern Europe (2004, ed. with Richard H. Popkin) and Socinianism and Arminianism (2005, ed. with Jan Rohls).

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