Things new and old: Loisy's place in the controversy over modernism -- The Bible and its ancient Near Eastern milieu in nineteenth-century France -- Loisy's work in the study of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament -- Loisy on the Book of Genesis in light of mesopotamian literature -- Back to the sources: the history of the source critical tradition upon which loisy drew -- Loisy's engagement with biblical scholarship: Fr. Richard Simon as heroic symbol -- Loisy's defense of historical biblical criticism
