Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

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Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters
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Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction
	THE HUMANIST ‘CRITIQUE’ OF SACRED AND ECCLESIASTICAL TEXTS
	THE ‘NEUTRALITY’ OF THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
	METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS: LEARNED PRACTICES, BIOGRAPHY, AND SOCIAL HISTORY
	THE CASE FOR REVISIONISM: THEOLOGY, RHETORIC, AND CONFESSIONAL POLITICS
	STRUCTURE
Prelude: The Discourse of Critica in the Late Renaissance
	CRITICISM BEFORE THE ARS CRITICA
	ANCIENT SOURCES, INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS, AND INSTITUTIONAL SETTINGS
	AN APOLOGY FOR CRITICISM IN CONTEXT: THE CASE OF ISAAC CASAUBON
	JUDGEMENT, MANUSCRIPTS, AND LITERARY TASTE
	A HANDMAIDEN TO PHILOSOPHY AND THEOLOGY
PART I: DEBATING SACRED HISTORY IN ENGLAND AND THE CONTINENT
	1: The ‘Theological Vortex’? Isaac Casaubon in England, 1610–1614
		GENEVA AND MONTPELLIER
		CONVERSION, THE EUCHARIST, AND THE CONFERENCE OF FONTAINEBLEAU
		POLITICAL THEOLOGY AND THE VENETIAN INTERDICT
		CORRESPONDENCE, PROPAGANDA, AND PAMPHLETEERING, 1610–1612
		THE GENESIS OF THE EXERCITATIONES, 1612–1614
		THE EXERCITATIONES (I): NATURAL REASON, JUSTIFICATION, AND PAGAN KNOWLEDGE OF CHRIST
		THE EXERCITATIONES (II): HISTORY, TYPOLOGY, AND THE LAST SUPPER AFTER SCALIGER
	2: Philology Divided: The Controversy over John Selden’s Historie of Tithes (1618)
		CUSTOM, TESTIMONY, AND DOGMATIC AFFIRMATION
		THE ARBITRARINESS OF CONJECTURE
		HISTORY AND TYPOLOGY: SELDEN’S INVIDIOUS DISTINCTION
		FAULT LINES IN THE HISTORIE’S SCHOLARLY RECEPTION: THE CASE OF THOMAS STANLEY
	3: Conclusion: Rethinking Historicism
PART II: COMMENTING ON THE NEW TESTAMENT
	4: New Testament Scholarship After Scaliger
		HELLENISTIC JUDAISM: HISTORICAL AND EXEGETICAL APPROACHES
		SCALIGER’S THEOLOGICAL CRITICISM OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
		EXEGESIS AND THE USE OF MANUSCRIPTS
	5: Hugo Grotius: ‘Historical Criticism’ in its Generic and Controversial Contexts
		IRENICISM, APOLOGETICS, AND NATURAL LAW
		DIVINE LAW, TYPOLOGY, AND THE SACRAMENTS
		THE CONTROVERSY WITH ANDRÉ RIVET
		GROTIUS AND ROMAN CATHOLICISM
	6: Conclusion: The Myth of ‘Critical Exegesis’
PART III: CRITICIZING THE OLD TESTAMENT
	7: Anti-Protestant Controversy and the ‘Ecclesiastical’ Versions of the Old Testament: The Case of Jean Morin
		THE GREEK, LATIN, AND HEBREW TEXTS AFTER THE COUNCIL OF TRENT
		A NEW AGENDA: MORIN’S 1628 PREFACE
		ECCLESIASTICAL CRITICISM AND ITS LIMITS: MORIN’S EXERCITATIONES BIBLICAE
	8: Protestants and the Septuagint: The Failed Edition of Patrick Young
		AN IDEAL PREPARATION? YOUNG AS LIBRARIAN AND PATRISTIC SCHOLAR
		MORIN, USSHER, AND THE CHALLENGE OF CODEX ALEXANDRINUS
		THE LIMITS OF INTER-CONFESSIONAL COLLABORATION
		YOUNG AND THE HEBRAICA VERITAS
	9: Critical Judgement and Theological Exegesis: The Case of Louis Cappel
		A DEFENCE OF THE MASORETIC TEXT? THE ARCANUM AND THE PROTESTANT TRADITION
		A NEW ‘CANON’ FOR EMENDATION: THE CRITICA SACRA
		CAPPEL’S MULTIPLICATION OF VARIANT READINGS
		SPECIALIZATION AND THE UNTIMELINESS OF THE CRITICA SACRA
	10: Cappel’s Critica Sacra in the Confessional Republic of Letters
		PROTESTANT OBSTACLES TO PUBLICATION
		FROM EXEGETICAL MANUAL TO ARGUMENT FOR ECCLESIASTICAL TRADITION: THE CRITICA SACRA IN PARIS AND ROME
		EXEGETICAL AND TEXT-CRITICAL RESPONSES FROM PROTESTANT SCHOLARS
	11: The London Polyglot Bible: Synthesis, Retrospective, or Another Controversial Intervention?
		THE ‘MINIMALISM’ OF WALTON’S PROLEGOMENA
		CONFUSION AND CREDULITY IN THE STUDY OF BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS
	12: Conclusion: From Humanistic Exegesis to Sacred Criticism
	Coda: From Critica Sacra to Enlightened Critique?
		CRITICA CRITICORUM: THE CASE OF RICHARD SIMON
			From textual criticism to critical history
			The necessity of tradition: Simon, Morin, and the appropriation of Cappel
		MAKING THE ARS CRITICA ‘MOREPHILOSOPHICAL’: THE CASEOF JEAN LE CLERC
			A Lockean critique of typology and the sacraments
			The Limits of Historical Criticism: Arminianism, Toleration and Humanistic Literary Ideals
		CONCLUSION: THE GENERALIZATION OF CRITICISM?
Bibliography
	PRIMARY LITERATURE
		Manuscripts and annotated printed books
		Printed books
	SECONDARY LITERATURE
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