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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Groetsch, Ulrich, author.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 237.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768.

Reimarus, Hermann Samuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 p.)

Place of Publication:

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

Summary:

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 Peeling away the layers of Reimarus’s radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement.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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27298-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004272989 DOI