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Sacred conjectures : the context and legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc / edited by John Jarick.
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 457.
- T & T Clark library of biblical studies
- Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 457
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Congresses.
- Bible.
- Lowth, Robert, 1710-1787. De sacra poesi Hebraeorum--Congresses.
- Lowth, Robert.
- Bible. Genesis.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Hebrew poetry, Biblical--History and criticism--Congresses.
- Hebrew poetry, Biblical.
- Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766. Conjectures sur la Génèse--Congresses.
- Astruc, Jean.
- Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Congresses.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 260 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : T & T Clark, [2007]
- Language Note:
- Abstracts in English; 1 paper in German and 1 in French.
- Summary:
- The collection aims to provide for Lowth and Astruc not only an account and evaluation of their life and work but also an understanding of the wider intellectual context of their scholarship and the reception and influence of their work ever since.>
- Contents:
- Biblical scholarship at Oxford in the mid-eighteenth century: local contexts for Robert Lowth's De sacra poesi Hebraeorum / Scott Mandelbrote
- Original poetry: Robert Lowth and eighteenth-century poetics / Anna Cullhed
- Robert Lowth and the idea of biblical tradition / Stephen Prickett
- After Horace: sacred poetry at the centre of the Hebrew Bible / Christoph Bultmann
- Charles-François Houbigant: his background, work and importance for Lowth / John Rogerson
- Die literarische Gattung des Buches Hiob: Robert Lowth und seine Erben / Markus Witte
- The study of Hebrew poetry: past
- present
- future / Wilfred G.E. Watson
- Jean Astruc: a physician as a biblical scholar / Rudolf Smend
- De l'intuition à l'évidence: la multiplicité documentaire dans la Génèse chez H. B. Witter et Jean Astruc / Pierre Gibert
- Jean Astruc and source criticism in the book of Genesis / Jan Christian Gertz
- The Mémoires of Moses and the genesis of method in biblical criticism: Astruc's contribution / Aulikki Nahkola
- An heir of Astruc in a remote German university: Hermann Hupfeld and the "new documentary hypothesis" / Otto Kaiser.
- Notes:
- Papers from a conference held at St. Catherine's College and at New College Oxford on April 8-10, 2003.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0567029328
- 9780567029324
- OCLC:
- 76937301
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