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Author Groetsch, Ulrich.

Title Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise / by Ulrich Groetsch
Published Boston : Brill, 2015

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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; v. 237
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 237.
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Illustrations; Note to the Reader and List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 From Protégé to Peer: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of Polyhistors; Chapter 2 Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg; Chapter 3 Jean Le Clerc's Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane; Chapter 4 Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History; Chapter 5 How Reimarus Read His Bible
Chapter 6 The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not SeeAfterthoughts; Bibliography; 1 Manuscripts ; 2 Printed Primary Sources ; 3 Secondary Literature; General Index; Scriptural Index
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 Peeling away the layers of Reimarus's radical work by looking at hitherto unpublished manuscript evidence, Ulrich Groetsch shows that the Radical Enlightenment was more than just an international philosophical movement.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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768.
Reimarus, Hermann Samuel, 1694-1768
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004272989
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9004272992
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