Biblical studies and the shifting of paradigms, 1850-1914 [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Henning Graf Reventlow and William Farmer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782243303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Sheffield, England, : Sheffield Academic Press, c1995
• ISBN: 1-281-80335-9; 9786611803353; 0-567-16839-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Collana: Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; ; 192
• Altri autori (Persone): ReventlowHenning, Graf; FarmerWilliam Reuben
• Disciplina: 220.609034
• Soggetti: Theology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Contributions to a symposium in which specialists in different fields worked together in an attempt to throw more light on the conditions--the theological convictions and worldview, the political climate, the state officials, educational institutions and churches--which were influential in the development of biblical studies in the second half of the nineteenth century."--Introduction.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; State Interesse and Markan Primacy: 1870-1914; H.J. Holtzmann and his European Colleagues: Aspects of the Nineteenth-Century European Discussion of Gospel Origins; The Role of the Old Testament in the German Liberal Protestant Theology of the Nineteenth Century; The Notion of Historicism and 19th Century Theology; History as a Case-Study of the Relations between University Professors and the State in Germany; Baron Friedrich von Hügel and the Conveyance of German Protestant Biblical Criticism in Roman Catholic Modernism; The Old Faith and the New: The Late Theology of D.F. StraussThe Intellectual Background of H.H. Milman's The History of the Jews (1829) and its Impact on English Biblical Scholarship; APPENDIX: Conditions and Presuppositions of Biblical Criticism in Germany in the Period of the Second Empire and Before: The Case of Heinrich Julius Holtzmann; Index of References; Index of Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: The volume contains the contributions to a symposium in which specialists in different fields worked together in the attempt to throw by their cooperation more light on the conditions - theological convictions and worldview, political climate, influence of state officials, educational institutions and churches - which were influential in the development of biblical studies in the second half of the 19th century. The discussion originated with a special problem: the thesis of William Farmer, one of the co-editors of the volume, that the appointment of Heinrich Julius Holtzmann, who defended the