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Author: Michael C. Legaspi (Instructor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Instructor in Philosophy and Religious Studies, Philips Academy)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 0.499kg
ISBN: 9780195394351
ISBN 10: 0195394356
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 29 April 2010
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
<br> This spellbinding narrative reveals the deep intellectual roots of the modernist enterprise of historical critical exegesis. No one will be able to engage this craft in the same fashion after grappling with the narrative this book so profoundly explores. <br>-- Gary Anderson, Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Notre Dame. <br><p><br> Michael Legaspi's wonderfully readable revisionist essay displays precisely the fundamental reconceptualizations necessary to displace historical whiggishness. Widely-read and consistently sure-footed in the complexities of the history of ideas in their cultural contexts, Legaspi shows how the origins of modern biblical studies, especially as focussed in the eighteenth-century figure of Johann Michaelis, has left the enduring legacy of an academic Bible which tends to displace rather than illumine the scriptural Bible of Jews and Christians. Legaspi here begins to do for biblical study something of what Michael Buckley's At the Origins of M
<br> This spellbinding narrative reveals the deep intellectual roots of the modernist enterprise of historical critical exegesis. No one will be able to engage this craft in the same fashion after grappling with the narrative this book so profoundly explores. <br>-- Gary Anderson, Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible, Notre Dame. <br> Michael Legaspi's wonderfully readable revisionist essay displays precisely the fundamental reconceptualizations necessary to displace historical whiggishness. Widely-read and consistently sure-footed in the complexities of the history of ideas in their cultural contexts, Legaspi shows how the origins of modern biblical studies, especially as focussed in the eighteenth-century figure of Johann Michaelis, has left the enduring legacy of an academic Bible which tends to displace rather than illumine the scriptural Bible of Jews and Christians. Legaspi here begins to do for biblical study something of what Michael Buckley's At the Origins of Modern A
This fascinating study, arising out of a PhD dissertation, focuses ostensibly on obscure German critic Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791), but tells the wider story of the changes in academic perspectives on the Bible over the last few centuries very well. * Dr Lee Gatiss, Churchman *
Author Information
Michael Legaspi is an Instructor in Philosophy and Religious Studies at Philips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
