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The Resource The Enlightenment Bible : translation, scholarship, culture, Jonathan Sheehan, (electronic resource)

The Enlightenment Bible : translation, scholarship, culture, Jonathan Sheehan, (electronic resource)

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Summary
"How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western heritage and invested with meaning, authority, and significance even for a secular age. The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion, Sheehan shows how the Bible survived, and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed, in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe, biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum, European scholars - especially German and English - exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible, reinterpret its meaning, and reinvest it with new authority. Poets, pedagogues, philosophers, literary critics, philologists, and historians together built a post-theological Bible, a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text, transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end, the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity, not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture." -- Publisher's description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages)
Note
Originally published: 2005
Contents
  • The Vernacular Bible : reformation and baroque
  • The birth of the Enlightenment Bible. Scholarship, the New Testament, and the English defense of the Bible ; Religion, the New Testament, and the German reinvention of the Bible
  • The forms of the Enlightenment Bible. Philology : the Bible from text to document ; Pedagogy : the politics and morals of the Enlightenment Bible ; Poetry : national literature, history, and the Hebrew Bible ; History : the archival and alien Old Testament
  • The cultural Bible. Culture, religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790-1830 ; "Regeneration from Germany" : culture and the Bible in England, 1780-1870
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09301
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The Enlightenment Bible : translation, scholarship, culture
Title
The Enlightenment Bible
Title remainder
translation, scholarship, culture
Statement of responsibility
Jonathan Sheehan
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
"How did the Bible survive the Enlightenment? In this book, Jonathan Sheehan shows how Protestant translators and scholars in the eighteenth century transformed the Bible from a book justified by theology to one justified by culture. In doing so, the Bible was made into the cornerstone of Western heritage and invested with meaning, authority, and significance even for a secular age. The Enlightenment Bible offers a new history of the Bible in the century of its greatest crisis and, in turn, a new vision of this century and its effects on religion. Although the Enlightenment has long symbolized the corrosive effects of modernity on religion, Sheehan shows how the Bible survived, and even thrived in this cradle of ostensible secularization. Indeed, in eighteenth-century Protestant Europe, biblical scholarship and translation became more vigorous and culturally significant than at any time since the Reformation. From across the theological spectrum, European scholars - especially German and English - exerted tremendous energies to rejuvenate the Bible, reinterpret its meaning, and reinvest it with new authority. Poets, pedagogues, philosophers, literary critics, philologists, and historians together built a post-theological Bible, a monument for a new religious era. These literati forged the Bible into a cultural text, transforming the theological core of the Judeo-Christian tradition. In the end, the Enlightenment gave the Bible the power to endure the corrosive effects of modernity, not as a theological text but as the foundation of Western culture." -- Publisher's description
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1969-
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Sheehan, Jonathan
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
Series statement
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book
  • Princeton paperbacks
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Enlightenment
Label
The Enlightenment Bible : translation, scholarship, culture, Jonathan Sheehan, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09301
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Publication
Note
Originally published: 2005
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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online resource
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  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The Vernacular Bible : reformation and baroque -- The birth of the Enlightenment Bible. Scholarship, the New Testament, and the English defense of the Bible ; Religion, the New Testament, and the German reinvention of the Bible -- The forms of the Enlightenment Bible. Philology : the Bible from text to document ; Pedagogy : the politics and morals of the Enlightenment Bible ; Poetry : national literature, history, and the Hebrew Bible ; History : the archival and alien Old Testament -- The cultural Bible. Culture, religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790-1830 ; "Regeneration from Germany" : culture and the Bible in England, 1780-1870
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MIU01000000000000011663280
Dimensions
24 cm.
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages)
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
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unknown
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computer
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rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Quality assurance targets
unknown
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (dli)HEB09301
  • (OCoLC)858861545
Label
The Enlightenment Bible : translation, scholarship, culture, Jonathan Sheehan, (electronic resource)
Link
https://eui.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.09301
Publication
Note
Originally published: 2005
Antecedent source
unknown
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
online resource
Carrier category code
  • cr
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Color
mixed
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
The Vernacular Bible : reformation and baroque -- The birth of the Enlightenment Bible. Scholarship, the New Testament, and the English defense of the Bible ; Religion, the New Testament, and the German reinvention of the Bible -- The forms of the Enlightenment Bible. Philology : the Bible from text to document ; Pedagogy : the politics and morals of the Enlightenment Bible ; Poetry : national literature, history, and the Hebrew Bible ; History : the archival and alien Old Testament -- The cultural Bible. Culture, religion, and the Bible in Germany, 1790-1830 ; "Regeneration from Germany" : culture and the Bible in England, 1780-1870
Control code
MIU01000000000000011663280
Dimensions
24 cm.
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages)
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
  • online
  • electronic
Governing access note
Use of this electronic resource may be governed by a license agreement which restricts use to the European University Institute community. Each user is responsible for limiting use to individual, non-commercial purposes, without systematically downloading, distributing, or retaining substantial portions of information, provided that all copyright and other proprietary notices contained on the materials are retained. The use of software, including scripts, agents, or robots, is generally prohibited and may result in the loss of access to these resources for the entire European University Institute community
Level of compression
unknown
Media category
computer
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • c
Other physical details
illustrations
Quality assurance targets
unknown
Reformatting quality
unknown
Sound
unknown sound
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
  • (dli)HEB09301
  • (OCoLC)858861545

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