The Enlightenment Bible : : Translation, Scholarship, Culture /

The Enlightenment Bible : : Translation, Scholarship, Culture / / Jonathan Sheehan.

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How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western her...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Sheehan, Jonathan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2005
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 13 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface: Forging the Cultural Bible
  • Abbreviations
  • Chapter One. The Vernacular Bible: Reformation and Baroque
  • Part I: The Birth of the Enlightenment Bible
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Two. Scholarship, the New Testament, and the English Defense of the Bible
  • Chapter Three. Religion, the New Testament, and the German Reinvention of the Bible
  • Part II: The Forms of the Enlightenment Bible
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Four. Philology: The Bible from Text to Document
  • Chapter Five. Pedagogy: The Politics and Morals of the Enlightenment Bible
  • Chapter Six. Poetry: National Literature, History, and the Hebrew Bible
  • Chapter Seven. History: The Archival and Alien Old Testament
  • Part III: The Cultural Bible
  • Introduction
  • Chapter Eight. Culture, Religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790–1830
  • Chapter Nine. “Regeneration from Germany”: Culture and the Bible in England, 1780–1870
  • Afterword
  • Index

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