The death of Scripture and the rise of biblical studies

Offering a new account of the origins of modern biblical criticism this work explores the scholarship of J.D. Michaelis (1717-1791), showing how critics created a post-theological academic Bible to replace Europe's scriptural Bibles and assimilate biblical scholarship to the social goals of the...

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Main Author: Legaspi, Michael C. (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press 2010
Series:Oxford studies in historical theology
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See on Universidad de Navarra:https://unika.unav.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991000221639708016&context=L&vid=34UNAV_INST:VU1&search_scope=34UNAV_TODO&tab=34UNAV_TODO&lang=es
Table of Contents:
  • From Scripture to text
  • Bible and theology at an enlightenment university
  • The study of classical antiquity at Göttingen
  • Michaelis and the dead Hebrew language
  • Lowth, Michaelis, and the invention of biblical poetry
  • Michaelis, Moses, and the recovery of the Bible.