Jacques Basnage de Beauval's l'Histoire des Juifs: Christian Historiographical Perception of Jewry and Judaism on the Eve of the Enlightenment
Basnage's unprecedented, comprehensive synthesis of Jewish experience since the first century of the Christian era represents a historiographical milestone, despite his inability to extricate the art of history from the presuppositions of theology. The attention of a Christian author to Jewry a...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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College
1983
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 1983, Volume: 54, Pages: 303-324 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Judaism
/ Christianity
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| IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism CA Christianity |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | Basnage's unprecedented, comprehensive synthesis of Jewish experience since the first century of the Christian era represents a historiographical milestone, despite his inability to extricate the art of history from the presuppositions of theology. The attention of a Christian author to Jewry and Judaism as a continuing historical phenomenon is novel. Basnage displays originality in his attempt to impose order and meaning on a mass of political, literary, and doctrinal material made available by various Hebraists and antiquarians, and he often reveals a sophisticated sense of historical criticism and perspective. Although deeply concerned with the perennial victimization of Jewry, for him a major dimension of Jewish history, his work is on the other hand unabashedly Protestant in sympathy. It is colored by religious polemic in which an odium talmudicum is one of the most prominent features. In the century of the enlightenment and beyond, the Histoire served as the authoritative source of information in matters of Jewish history and religion for individuals of the most diverse intellectual and religious persuasions in the western world, and for purposes equally diverse. |
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| ISSN: | 0360-9049 |
| Contains: | In: Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
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