The Enlightenment Bible: Translation, Scholarship, Culture (Paperback)

~ (Author) "THE ENLIGHTENMENT BIBLE grew out of the soil of the Protestant Reformation, whose insistence on first principles-sola gratia, sola fides, sola scriptura-put the Bible at..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

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Sheehan's narrative is engaging and replete with fascinating detail. . . . Sheehan's scholarship is praiseworthy, his erudition impressive, and his writing often elegant. This book represents a welcome contribution to modern European intellectual history and the history of biblical scholarship.
(Thomas Albert Howard American Historical Review )

[A] splendid and clever book. . . . [Sheehan's] work makes sense of the enlightenment Bible within historical and intellectual processes.
(Scott Mandelbrote English Historical Review )

This is a book that needed to be written, and it has been written very well. . . . [V]ery important, stimulating and accessible.
(Anthony Page Journal of British Studies )

A model of comparative history. . . . This book is not only a work about the Enlightenment; it is also a work of enlightenment.
(David Kling Church History )

[A] fascinating story. . . . [Sheehan's] inclusion of Jewish scholars and scholarship is especially welcomed. . . . Highly recommended.
(Choice )

For those happy that the Bible should be a cultural artifact, and for those who seek to encounter the God of Abraham and Jesus through its pages, this is a valuable account of how modernity's characteristic construal of the Bible came about.
(Walter Moberly Reviews in Religion and Theology )

Sheehan's scholarly accomplishment and historical contribution comes from the extensive new research he has done on the largely unrecorded history of Bible translation. . . . Sheehan has thus introduced a whole new set of books and characters to track down and lines of questioning to explore. For that gift alone, German historians should rejoice.
(John R. Holloran H-Net Reviews )

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This lively, elegant and erudite book sheds new light on intellectual relations between eighteenth-century Germany and England. The book will have much to offer historians of the early-modern period, as well as historians of science, literary critics, and theologians.
(Anthony Grafton, Princeton University )

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Product Details

• Paperback: 296 pages
• Publisher: Princeton University Press (July 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0691130698
• ISBN-13: 978-0691130699
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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