Knowledge and profanation : transgressing the boundaries of religion in premodern scholarship /
Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions - occasionally with goo...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2019]
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| Series: | Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ;
v. 63. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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 ReligionChapter 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