RT Book
T1 Criticism and confession: the Bible in the seventeenth century Republic of letters
T2 Oxford-Warburg Studies
A1 Hardy, Nicholas 1987-
LA English
PP Oxford
PB OUP Oxford
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/892706570
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
AB 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
OP 477
CN 220.6/09/032
SN 978-0-19-102519-8