Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise
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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise
（Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 237）
Brill, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-361) and indexes
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Description
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 Peeling away the layers of Reimarus's radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement.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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Note to the Reader and List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1
From Protege to Peer: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of Polyhistors
Chapter 2
Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg
Chapter 3
Jean Le Clerc's Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane
Chapter 4
Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History
Chapter 5
How Reimarus Read His Bible
Chapter 6
The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not See
Afterthoughts
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
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