Criticism and confession: the Bible in the seventeenth century Republic of letters
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 politic...
| Summary: | 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 Cover -- Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Introduction -- THE HUMANIST 'CRITIQUE' OF SACRED AND ECCLESIASTICAL TEXTS -- THE 'NEUTRALITY' OF THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS -- METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: LEARNED PRACTICES, BIOGRAPHY, AND SOCIAL HISTORY -- THE CASE FOR REVISIONISM: THEOLOGY, RHETORIC, AND CONFESSIONAL POLITICS -- STRUCTURE -- Prelude: The Discourse of Critica in the Late Renaissance -- CRITICISM BEFORE THE ARS CRITICA -- ANCIENT SOURCES, INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS -- AN APOLOGY FOR CRITICISM IN CONTEXT: THE CASE OF ISAAC CASAUBON -- JUDGEMENT, MANUSCRIPTS, AND LITERARY TASTE -- A HANDMAIDEN TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY -- PART I: DEBATING SACRED HISTORY IN ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT -- 1: The 'Theological Vortex'? Isaac Casaubon in England, 1610-1614 -- GENEVA AND MONTPELLIER -- CONVERSION, THE EUCHARIST, AND THE CONFERENCE OF FONTAINEBLEAU -- POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE VENETIAN INTERDICT -- CORRESPONDENCE, PROPAGANDA, AND PAMPHLETEERING, 1610-1612 -- THE GENESIS OF THE EXERCITATIONES, 1612-1614 -- THE EXERCITATIONES (I): NATURAL REASON, JUSTIFICATION, AND PAGAN KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST -- THE EXERCITATIONES (II): HISTORY, TYPOLOGY, AND THE LAST SUPPER AFTER SCALIGER -- 2: Philology Divided: The Controversy over John Selden's Historie of Tithes (1618) -- CUSTOM, TESTIMONY, AND DOGMATIC AFFIRMATION -- THE ARBITRARINESS OF CONJECTURE -- HISTORY AND TYPOLOGY: SELDEN'S INVIDIOUS DISTINCTION -- FAULT LINES IN THE HISTORIE'S SCHOLARLY RECEPTION: THE CASE OF THOMAS STANLEY -- 3: Conclusion: Rethinking Historicism -- PART II: COMMENTING ON THE NEW TESTAMENT -- 4: New Testament Scholarship After Scaliger -- HELLENISTIC JUDAISM: HISTORICAL AND EXEGETICAL APPROACHES SCALIGER'S THEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT -- EXEGESIS AND THE USE OF MANUSCRIPTS -- 5: Hugo Grotius: 'Historical Criticism' in its Generic and Controversial Contexts -- IRENICISM, APOLOGETICS, AND NATURAL LAW -- DIVINE LAW, TYPOLOGY, AND THE SACRAMENTS -- THE CONTROVERSY WITH ANDRÉ RIVET -- GROTIUS AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM -- 6: Conclusion: The Myth of 'Critical Exegesis' -- PART III: CRITICIZING THE OLD TESTAMENT -- 7: Anti-Protestant Controversy and the 'Ecclesiastical' Versions of the Old Testament: The Case of Jean Morin -- THE GREEK, LATIN, AND HEBREW TEXTS AFTER THE COUNCIL OF TRENT -- A NEW AGENDA: MORIN'S 1628 PREFACE -- ECCLESIASTICAL CRITICISM AND ITS LIMITS: MORIN'S EXERCITATIONES BIBLICAE -- 8: Protestants and the Septuagint: The Failed Edition of Patrick Young -- AN IDEAL PREPARATION? YOUNG AS LIBRARIAN AND PATRISTIC SCHOLAR -- MORIN, USSHER, AND THE CHALLENGE OF CODEX ALEXANDRINUS -- THE LIMITS OF INTER-CONFESSIONAL COLLABORATION -- YOUNG AND THE HEBRAICA VERITAS -- 9: Critical Judgement and Theological Exegesis: The Case of Louis Cappel -- A DEFENCE OF THE MASORETIC TEXT? THE ARCANUM AND THE PROTESTANT TRADITION -- A NEW 'CANON' FOR EMENDATION: THE CRITICA SACRA -- CAPPEL'S MULTIPLICATION OF VARIANT READINGS -- SPECIALIZATION AND THE UNTIMELINESS OF THE CRITICA SACRA -- 10: Cappel's Critica Sacra in the Confessional Republic of Letters -- PROTESTANT OBSTACLES TO PUBLICATION -- FROM EXEGETICAL MANUAL TO ARGUMENT FOR ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION: THE CRITICA SACRA IN PARIS AND ROME -- EXEGETICAL AND TEXT-CRITICAL RESPONSES FROM PROTESTANT SCHOLARS -- 11: The London Polyglot Bible: Synthesis, Retrospective, or Another Controversial Intervention? -- THE 'MINIMALISM' OF WALTON'S PROLEGOMENA -- CONFUSION AND CREDULITY IN THE STUDY OF BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS -- 12: Conclusion: From Humanistic Exegesis to Sacred Criticism Coda: From Critica Sacra to Enlightened Critique? -- CRITICA CRITICORUM: THE CASE OF RICHARD SIMON -- From textual criticism to critical history -- The necessity of tradition: Simon, Morin, and the appropriation of Cappel -- MAKING THE ARS CRITICA 'MOREPHILOSOPHICAL': THE CASEOF JEAN LE CLERC -- A Lockean critique of typology and the sacraments -- The Limits of Historical Criticism: Arminianism, Toleration and Humanistic Literary Ideals -- CONCLUSION: THE GENERALIZATION OF CRITICISM? -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY LITERATURE -- Manuscripts and annotated printed books -- Printed books -- SECONDARY LITERATURE -- Index |
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| ISBN: | 0191025194 |