TY - BOOK AU - Mulsow,Martin AU - Ben-Tov,Asaph TI - Knowledge and Profanation: Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship T2 - Intersections Series SN - 9789004398931 AV - BL410 .K569 2019 U1 - 201/.5 PY - 2019/// CY - Boston PB - BRILL KW - Religions-Relations KW - Aesthetics-Religious aspects KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part 1 The Sacred and the Profane in Art, Literature and Parody -- Chapter 1 Lucian of Samosata on Magic and Superstition -- Chapter 2 Rabbi Lazarus and the Rich Man: A Talmudic Parody of the Late Roman Hell (Yerushalmi Hagigah 2.2, 77d and Sanhedrin 6.9, 23c) -- Chapter 3 Cardinal Gabriele Paleotti's Call for Reform of Christian Art -- Chapter 4 The Sacred Becomes Profane - The Profane Becomes Sacred: Observations on the Desubstantialisation of Religious Discourse in the Early Modern Age -- Part 2 Early Modern European Knowledge about Pagan Religion -- Chapter 5 The Seventeenth Century Confronts the Gods: Bishop Huet, Moses, and the Dangers of Comparison -- Chapter 6 The Eleusinian Mysteries in the Age of Reason -- Part 3 Crossing the Boundaries in Biblical Scholarship: Ancient Preconditions and Early Modern Conflict -- Chapter 7 Athens and Jerusalem? Early Jewish Biblical Scholarship and the Pagan World -- Chapter 8 Richard Simon and the Charenton Bible Project: The Quest for 'Perfect Neutrality' in Interpreting Scripture -- Chapter 9 The Devil in the Details: The Case of Hermann Samuel Reimarus (1694-1768) -- Part 4 Scientific Knowledge and Religion -- Chapter 10 Cry Me a Relic: The Holy Tear of Vendôme and Early Modern Lipsanomachy -- Chapter 11 The Powerlessness of the Devil: Scientific Knowledge and Demonology in Clemente Baroni Cavalcabò (1726-1796) -- Index Nominum N2 - Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=5842441 ER -