Sir William Jones, Biblical Orientalism and Indian Scholarship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3654471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alun David (University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 173-184 |
| Publication date | 1996-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00014128 |
| OpenAlex | W2166971210 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 7 |
For many students of late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century British intellectual and literary history, Sir William Jones (1746-94) has lately come to seem a figure of great significance for our understanding of the period. A notable if implicit claim for his importance is to be found in Jerome McGann's revisionist New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse (1993); A Hymn to Na'ra'yena (1785), Jones's translation from the Sanskrit, is symbolically placed as the anthology's first item. This essay will argue that Jones's Indian scholarship will be better understood in the light of its links with contemporary developments in biblical criticism
Art · Biblical studies · Hebrew Bible · Hymn · Literature · Orientalism · Period (music · Romance · Sanskrit · Scholarship · Textual criticism · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2026 (25) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |