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Record Nr.

UNINA9910493167103321

Autore

Groetsch Ulrich

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-27298-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, , 0920-8607 ; ; Volume 237

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 Peeling away the layers of Reimarus’s radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement.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