Sheehan The Enlightenment Bible

Translation, Scholarship, Culture
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4779-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Jonathan Sheehan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a number of articles on European religion and its transformations, and winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheehan, Jonathan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Heilige & Traditionelle Texte, Mythologie, Vergleichende Mythologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Forging the Cultural Bible ix

Abbreviations xvii

Chapter One: The Vernacular Bible: Reformation and Baroque 1

Part I: The Birth of the Enlightenment Bible
Chapter Two: Scholarship, the New Testament, and the English Defense of the Bible 27

Chapter Three: Religion, the New Testament, and the German Reinvention of the Bible 54

Part II: The Forms of the Enlightenment Bible
Chapter Four: Philology: The Bible from Text to Document 93

Chapter Five: Pedagogy: The Politics and Morals of the Enlightenment Bible 118

Chapter Six: Poetry: National Literature, History, and the Hebrew Bible 148

Chapter Seven: History: The Archival and Alien Old Testament 182

Part III: The Cultural Bible
Chapter Eight: Culture, Religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790-1830 223

Chapter Nine: "Regeneration from Germany": Culture and the Bible in England, 1780-1870 241

Afterword 259

Index 261

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Sheehan is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. He is the author of a number of articles on European religion and its transformations, and winner of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the Andrew Mellon Foundation.