The history of early modern biblical scholarship has often been told as a teleological narrative in which a succession of radical thinkers dethroned the authority of the sacred word. This book tells a very different story. Drawing on a mass of archival sources, Timothy Twining reconstructs the relig...

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1. Verfasser:	Twining, Timothy (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Ideas in context
Schlagworte:	Bible / Old Testament / Study and teaching / Catholic Church Bible / Old Testament / Criticism, interpretation, etc / History
Online-Zugang:	DE-12 DE-473 URL des Erstveröffentlichers
Zusammenfassung:	The history of early modern biblical scholarship has often been told as a teleological narrative in which a succession of radical thinkers dethroned the authority of the sacred word. This book tells a very different story. Drawing on a mass of archival sources, Timothy Twining reconstructs the religious, cultural, and institutional contexts in which the text of the Old Testament was considered and contested throughout post-Reformation Europe. In so doing, this book brings to light a vast array of figures from across the confessional spectrum who invested immense energy in studying the Bible. Their efforts, it shows, were not disinterested, but responded to pressing contemporary concerns. The Limits of Erudition employs a novel conceptual framework to resurrect a world where learning mattered to inquisitors and archbishops as much as to antiquaries, and in which the pursuit of erudition was too important to be left to scholars
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024)
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 340 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781009460965
DOI:	10.1017/9781009460965