Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary ShelleyRoutledge, 2016 M12 5 - 217 pages In a reassessment of the long-accepted division between religion and enlightenment, Ana Acosta here traces a tissue of readings and adaptations of Genesis and Scriptural language from Milton through Rousseau to Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley. Acosta's interdisciplinary approach places these writers in the broader context of eighteenth-century political theory, biblical criticism, religious studies and utopianism. Acosta's argument is twofold: she establishes the importance of Genesis within utopian thinking, in particular the influential models of Milton and Rousseau; and she demonstrates that the power of these models can be explained neither by traditional religious paradigms nor by those of religion or philosophy. In establishing the relationship between biblical criticism and republican utopias, Acosta makes a solid case that important utopian visions are better understood against the background of Genesis interpretation. This study opens a new perspective on theories of secularization, and as such will interest scholars of religious studies, intellectual history, and philosophy as well as of literary studies. |
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... Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both representative of the species (Adam the father of mankind) and autonomous ...
... Hebrew Bible provided a common framework during the long eighteenth century for rewriting an origin of civil society that would be based on the individual as both representative of the species (Adam the father of mankind) and autonomous ...
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... Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought borrowed heavily from the ...
... Hebrew Bible began to be divested of its traditional authority within the Christian Enlightenment , exegetical readings of Genesis became more and more explicitly also rewritings . Enlightenment thought borrowed heavily from the ...
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... biblical scholars Graf and Wellhausen . " What is most telling about ... Scripture had become malleable : chapter and verse could be dismissed as " recent and ... Hebrew texts were so fraught with inconsistencies , errors of transmission ...
... biblical scholars Graf and Wellhausen . " What is most telling about ... Scripture had become malleable : chapter and verse could be dismissed as " recent and ... Hebrew texts were so fraught with inconsistencies , errors of transmission ...
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... scripture , shifting the burden of interpretation away from a series of recounted events and toward a linguistic text that could be taken apart and examined in layers . In the same way , the study of the Hebrew Bible and the New ...
... scripture , shifting the burden of interpretation away from a series of recounted events and toward a linguistic text that could be taken apart and examined in layers . In the same way , the study of the Hebrew Bible and the New ...
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... Bible generates meaning through the formal resonances of its episodes, characters, and language. The resonances of ... Hebrew Bible was subject to rewriting by its redactors, however modestly we assess their creative contribution. The ...
... Bible generates meaning through the formal resonances of its episodes, characters, and language. The resonances of ... Hebrew Bible was subject to rewriting by its redactors, however modestly we assess their creative contribution. The ...
Contents
Dr Miltons Guide or the Utopia Within | |
The Passion of JeanJacques Rousseau or the Dystopia Within | |
Wollstonecrafts Body Politics or Philosophy in the Bedroom | |
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Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley Ana M. Acosta Limited preview - 2006 |
Reading Genesis in the Long Eighteenth Century: From Milton to Mary Shelley ANA M. ACOSTA No preview available - 2019 |
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