Between philology and radical Enlightenment : Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) / / edited by Martin Mulsow.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 203
• TeilnehmendeR: Mulsow, Martin.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 203.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Notes: Chiefly proceedings of a conference held Mar. 4, 2006 at Rutgers University.; Includes index.

Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) was the most significant biblical critic in eighteenth-century Germany, as well as an eminent Enlightenment philosopher, a renowned classicist and expert on Judaism. How do the different strands of his scholarship fit together? Is there a direct way from critical philology to Radical Enlightenment? This volume portrays the 'whole' Reimarus and shows how exegetical expertise, philosophical reflection, and antiquarian interests came together in the formation of an extraordinarily deep ranging critique of the Bible, fragments of which were published by Lessing in the famous 'Fragmentenstreit' of 1774-78. The seven contributions all rely on new manuscript evidence and partly provide editions of hitherto unpublished texts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary material / Martin Mulsow -- FROM ANTIQUARIANISM TO BIBLE CRITICISM? YOUNG REIMARUS VISITS THE NETHERLANDS: With an edition of the travel diary fragment of 1720/1 / Martin Mulsow -- EDIFYING VERSUS RATIONAL HERMENEUTICS: HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS’ REVISION OF JOHANN ADOLF HOFFMANN’S ‘NEUE ERKLÄRUNG DES BUCHS HIOB’ / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- THE PUBLIC DISCOURSE OF HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS AND JOHANN LORENZ SCHMIDT IN THE HAMBURGISCHE BERICHTE VON GELEHRTEN SACHEN IN 1736 / Ursula Goldenbaum -- REIMARUS, THE CARDINAL, AND THE REMAKING OF CASSIUS DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY / Ulrich Groetsch -- REIMARUS, THE HAMBURG JEWS, AND THE MESSIAH / Dietrich Klein -- THE PHILOSOPHICAL CONTEXT OF HERMANN SAMUEL REIMARUS’ RADICAL BIBLE CRITICISM / Jonathan Israel -- LIVING IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT: THE REIMARUS HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF 1728–1780 / Almut and Paul Spalding -- INDEX OF NAMES / Martin Mulsow.