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Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry - Felix Schlichter

Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry

Pagan Antiquity and the Biblical Text in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)
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536 Seiten
2024
Brill (Verlag)
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A contextual study of the work of the Augustinian scholar Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) that demonstrates how his work and that of his late seventeenth-century contemporaries postulated a new and ultimately influential conceptualisation of the relationship between sacred and profane antiquity.
The present work offers the first major study of the Augustinian historian and missionary Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) and places Bonjour’s hitherto unstudied contributions to pagan mythography, biblical chronology, and ancient religion in their historical, intellectual context. It argues that Bonjour was part of a prominent scholarly tradition which advanced a new understanding of and approach to studying pagan antiquity, an approach which, if developed with the intention of elucidating and further confirming traditional assumptions about the authority of biblical history, nevertheless proved innovative for the way in which it postulated a new relationship between the “sacred” and the “profane” in ancient history.

Felix Schlichter received his Ph.D. from Trinity College, Cambridge, in 2022 and has since held fellowships at the Forschungszentrum Gotha and the IEG, Mainz. His research concerns early modern intellectual, religious, and scholarly history, with a particular focus on historiography.

Notes


Acknowledgements


Abbreviations





Introduction





1 Guillaume Bonjour: His Life and His World


 1 Bonjour in Toulouse


 2 Bonjour in Rome


 3 Bonjour in the Republic of Letters


 4 Bonjour in Montefiascone


 5 Bonjour in China – and Beyond





Part 1: Mythology


2 Sacred History and Profane Fables


 1 Historia sacra and historia exotica in the Seventeenth-Century


 2 Samuel Bochart and the Biblical Diffusionist Narrative


 3 Isaac La Peyrère and the Problematization of Sacred History


 4 Pagan Sources for Biblical History: the Case of the Flood


 5 Biblical Authority and the Limits of Pagan Evidence


 6 Sacred History and Profane Fables: a Contested Legacy





3 The Wisdom of the Egyptians


 1 Egypt, Israel, and the Origins of Human Civilization


 2 The Jewish Origins of Egyptian Culture: Serapis


 3 The Jewish Origins of Egyptian Culture: Minos, Menes, and Mercury


 4 Sacred History and the Origins of Human Civilization


 5 Greek Universal History in a Biblical Context





Part 2: Chronology


4 The Chronology of the Septuagint


 1 Biblical Chronologies in the Seventeenth Century


 2 Chronology and the Septuagint in Bonjour’s World


 3 Jewish and Pagan Sources in Bonjour’s Chronology


 4 Bonjour on the Septuagint


 5 Biblical Scholarship and the Septuagint in Post-Tridentine Rome





5 The Dynasties of Manetho


 1 The Antiquity of Egypt


 2 Manetho in Early Christian Chronography


 3 Manetho after Scaliger


 4 Bonjour’s Manetho and His Enemies


 5 Bonjour on Manetho


 6 La Peyrère and the Authority of Manetho





Part 3: Idolatry


6 The Gods of the Heathens


 1 Antiquarianism and the Study of Pagan Religion


 2 Early Modern Histories of Religion


 3 Divine Names and Pagan Onomatolatria


 4 Pagan Ancestor Worship





7 The Religion of China


 1 The Problem of China in the Seventeenth Century


 2 Chinese Debates in Bonjour’s Rome


 3 Patristic Apologetics and the History of Idolatry in the Chinese Rites Debate


 4 Pagan Animism and the Chinese Names for God


 5 Historical Context and Ancient Names for God


 6 Bonjour in China: Christian Apologetics at Work





Conclusion


Bibliography


 Manuscript Sources


 Primary Printed Sources


 Printed Secondary Sources





Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 19.12.2024
Reihe/Serie Brill's Studies in Intellectual History ; 355
Verlagsort Leiden
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 1 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Religion / Theologie Christentum Kirchengeschichte
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ISBN-10 90-04-68495-6 / 9004684956
ISBN-13 978-90-04-68495-9 / 9789004684959
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