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Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) : Classicist, Hebraist, Enlightenment Radical in Disguise.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (392 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004272989
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768)DDC classification:
  • 193
LOC classification:
  • B2699.R44 -- .G76 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Note to the Reader and List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Protégé to Peer: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of Polyhistors -- Chapter 2 Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg -- Chapter 3 Jean Le Clerc's Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane -- Chapter 4 Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History -- Chapter 5 How Reimarus Read His Bible -- Chapter 6 The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not See -- Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- 1 Manuscripts -- 2 Printed Primary Sources -- 3 Secondary Literature -- General Index -- Scriptural Index.
Summary: In Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768): Classicist, Hebraist, Enlightenment Radical in Disguise, Ulrich Groetsch offers a vivid portrayal of the Enlightenment radical Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) and his debt to earlier traditions of scholarship.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Illustrations -- Note to the Reader and List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 From Protégé to Peer: Reimarus at the Hamburg School of Polyhistors -- Chapter 2 Among Pagans and Hebrews: Teaching Jewish Antiquities in Eighteenth-Century Hamburg -- Chapter 3 Jean Le Clerc's Faithful Pupil: Reimarus Encounters the Profane -- Chapter 4 Reimarus, the Cardinal, and the Remaking of Cassius Dio's Roman History -- Chapter 5 How Reimarus Read His Bible -- Chapter 6 The Miraculous Crossing of the Red Sea: What Lessing and His Opponents during the Fragmentenstreit Did Not See -- Afterthoughts -- Bibliography -- 1 Manuscripts -- 2 Printed Primary Sources -- 3 Secondary Literature -- General Index -- Scriptural Index.

In Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768): Classicist, Hebraist, Enlightenment Radical in Disguise, Ulrich Groetsch offers a vivid portrayal of the Enlightenment radical Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) and his debt to earlier traditions of scholarship.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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