Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : : classicist, hebraist, enlightenment radical in disguise / / by Ulrich Groetsch.

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...

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Superior document:Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Volume 237
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 237.
Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • 1 From Protégé to Peer
  • 2 Among Pagans and Hebrews
  • 3 Jean Le Clerc’s Faithful Pupil
  • 4 Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius
  • 5 How Reimarus Read His Bible
  • 6 The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea
  • Afterthoughts
  • Bibliography
  • General Index
  • Scriptural Index.