Abstract
Early Modern Biblical Criticism and the Republic of Letters
Highlights
The publication of these three books is a landmark moment, for it confirms a trend of the last two or three decades, in which the study of early modern biblical scholarship – and more generally the relationship between erudition and religion – has become one of the pre-eminent areas of pre-modern intellectual history.[1]
All of them offer accurate, precise readings of some hugely difficult texts, many of them written in convoluted humanist Latin and containing advanced Greek and Hebrew philology
All of them operate within the ambit of what we might call the ‘new’ history of scholarship developed first and foremost by Anthony Grafton, which does not seek to tell a linear story of progress towards ‘modern’ critical method, but rather focuses on recreating early modern scholars at work, and placing them in their immediate scholarly, religious, institutional, and political contexts
Summary
The publication of these three books is a landmark moment, for it confirms a trend of the last two or three decades, in which the study of early modern biblical scholarship – and more generally the relationship between erudition and religion – has become one of the pre-eminent areas of pre-modern intellectual history.[1].
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