A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and political pressures affecting the ways they worked.
A study of the ways in which the text and meaning of the Bible were debated by scholars and theologians, Catholic and Protestant, in seventeenth-century Europe, considering the technical problems faced by scholars studying and editing the text in its original languages, and the religious and political pressures affecting the ways they worked.
Nicholas Hardy is currently Munby Research Fellow in Bibliography at the University Library and Darwin College, Cambridge. His research interests cover early modern humanism, intellectual history, classical reception studies, and the history of the book. He took a BA (2008) in Classics and English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and then an MSt (2009) and DPhil (2012) in English, also at Oxford, before joining Trinity College, Cambridge to take up a four-year Research Fellowship in 2012. He has also held visiting fellowships at the Scaliger Institute, Leiden University Library, and the Folger Institute in Washington, DC.
Inhaltsangabe
* Introduction * Prelude: The discourse of critica in the late Renaissance * PART I: Debating sacred history in England and the continent * The 'Theological Vortex'? Isaac Casaubon in England, 1610-1614 * Philology divided: the controversy over John Selden's Historie of Tithes (1618) * PART II: Commenting on the New Testament * New Testament scholarship after Scaliger * Hugo Grotius: 'historical criticism' in its generic and controversial contexts * Conclusion: the myth of 'critical exegesis' * PART III: Criticizing the Old Testament * Anti-Protestant controversy and the 'ecclesiastical' versions of the Old Testament: the case of Jean Morin * Protestants and the Septuagint: the failed edition of Patrick Young * Critical judgement and theological exegesis: the case of Louis Cappel * Cappel's Critica sacra in the confessional republic of letters * The London Polyglot Bible: synthesis, retrospective, or another controversial intervention? * Conclusion: from humanistic exegesis to sacred criticism * Coda. From Critica sacra to Enlightened critique? * Critica criticorum: the case of Richard Simon * Making the ars critica 'more philosophical': the case of Jean Le Clerc * Conclusion: the generalization of criticism? * Bibliography
* Introduction * Prelude: The discourse of critica in the late Renaissance * PART I: Debating sacred history in England and the continent * The 'Theological Vortex'? Isaac Casaubon in England, 1610-1614 * Philology divided: the controversy over John Selden's Historie of Tithes (1618) * PART II: Commenting on the New Testament * New Testament scholarship after Scaliger * Hugo Grotius: 'historical criticism' in its generic and controversial contexts * Conclusion: the myth of 'critical exegesis' * PART III: Criticizing the Old Testament * Anti-Protestant controversy and the 'ecclesiastical' versions of the Old Testament: the case of Jean Morin * Protestants and the Septuagint: the failed edition of Patrick Young * Critical judgement and theological exegesis: the case of Louis Cappel * Cappel's Critica sacra in the confessional republic of letters * The London Polyglot Bible: synthesis, retrospective, or another controversial intervention? * Conclusion: from humanistic exegesis to sacred criticism * Coda. From Critica sacra to Enlightened critique? * Critica criticorum: the case of Richard Simon * Making the ars critica 'more philosophical': the case of Jean Le Clerc * Conclusion: the generalization of criticism? * Bibliography
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