From Sacred History to the History of Religion
Paganism, Judaism, and Christianity in European Historiography From Reformation to ‘Enlightenment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8044272 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dmitri Levitin (0000-0002-0383-8103, Institute of History and Archaeology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1117-1160 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x12000295 |
| OpenAlex | W2096577209 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 143 |
This essay is a critical historiographical overview of the recent literature on the writing of sacred history (history of the biblical Jews and early Christians) and history of religion in early modern Europe. It considers the rise of interest in this branch of intellectual history in the last decade, placing it in the context of the rise of the history of scholarship as a historical discipline. It then charts how the characterization of early modern history of religion as stale, pedantic, and blandly ‘orthodox’ until it was swept aside by a critical and heterodox ‘enlightenment’ is being revised, first in new approaches to early modern histories of biblical Judaism and historicizations of the Old Testament, second in new readings of early modern scholarship on primitive Christianity. It concludes by suggesting new avenues of research which divorce narratives of intellectual change from the linear and inconclusive emphasis on ‘enlightenment’, favouring an approach that conversely emphasizes the impact of confessionalization in creating a newly critical scholarly culture
Archaeology · Art · Christianity · Context (archaeology) · Early Modern Europe · Enlightenment · Historiography · History of religions · Intellectual history · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Judaism · Literature · Political science · Scholarship · Theology · Classics · Early Modern Women Writers · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies
Hayden White's Philosophical History
Geographical approaches to religion in the past
Making the States’ Translation (1637)
Kant’s Philosophical Ascesis
Flavius Josephus and early modern biblical chronology
Secularisation
When sinologists were geologists
Property, Space and Sacred History in John Locke's Two Treatises of Government
The Early Jewish Reception of Kantian Philosophy
David Hume, the Académie des inscriptions and the Nature of Historical Evidence in the Early Eighteenth Century
Isaac Newton, scholar
Malthus’s sacred history
Reorienting English Protestantism
Prussia against Rome, 1724–1742
Arguing with the Heathens
History, Memory, and the English Reformation
Applying the Right Measure
Nephilim in Aotearoa New Zealand
Church and State in the French Reformation
The Lulav
The Disputed Origins of Dutch Calvinism
Explaining religion
Giordano Bruno and the hermetic tradition
Comparative religion
Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus
Isaac Casaubon, 1559–1614
The Pagan Menace
'Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
Enlightenment Contested
The Religious Enlightenment
Impolite Learning
Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance
The footnote
Barbarism and Religion
Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736) et la Republique des Lettres
Caesar Baronius
Jean Bodin and the Authorship of the Colloquium Heptaplomeres
"A special kindness for dead bishops"
Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in 17th-Century England
Power and Religion in Baroque Rome
Reason and Reasonableness in French Ecclesiastical Scholarship
John Selden
Bibliographie zu Flavius Josephus
Sacred Words and Worlds
The Book That Changed Europe
Historical Method and Confessional Identity in the Era of the Reformation (1378-1615)
The Debate over the Vowel Points and the Crisis in Orthodox Hermeneutics
De Dominis (1560-1624)
The "Antiquarianization" of Biblical Scholarship and the London Polyglot Bible (1653-57)
Reading Augustine in the Reformation
Zwischen Gelehrsamkeit und konfessioneller Identitätsstiftung. Lutherische Kirchen- und Universalgeschichtsschreibung 1546-1617
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667) and the “Historia Orientalis”
Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation? (A Passage in Dispute between Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn and H. Cohen). A Contribution to a Jewish View of Natural Law
El Socinianismo, el islam y los usos radicales de la erudición árabe
Biblical Criticism and Censorship in Ancien Régime France
Before the Law
William Bedwell, the Arabist 1563-1632
Orientalism, Aramaic and Kabbalah in the Catholic Reformation
British Identities before Nationalism
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book
Radical Enlightenment
Taking Paganism Seriously
John Seldens De Diis Syris
Baudouin, Flacius, and the Plan for the Magdeburg Centuries
Die Patristik in der Bibelexegese des 16. Jahrhunderts
Hebraica Veritas? Christian Hebraists and the Study of Judaism in Early Modern Europe
Theology, Biblical Scholarship and Rabbinical Studies in the Seventeenth Century
From Christian Hebraism to Jewish Studies
Renaissance England's Chief Rabbi
Daniel Zwicker, 1612-1678
Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy
The Great Art of Knowing
Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century
The Discovery of Hebrew in Tudor England
The Most Ancient Testimony
The Church Fathers and the Canonicity of the Apocalypse in the Sixteenth Century
Maps in Bibles 1500-1600
The Complexities of Biblical Typology in the Seventeenth Century
Shop Talk. Reception studies and recent work in the history of scholarship
The Name And Nature of Leviathan
Historiography and Enlightenment
Sacred Geography, Antiquarianism and Visual Erudition
Barbarism and religion, Volume 1, The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737–1764
Europe's "Discovery" of China and the Writing of World History
Seventeenth-Century Preadamism, and an Anonymous English Preadamist
German Orientalism in the Age of Empire
Ancienneté among the Non-Jurors
Balthasar bekker and the crisis of cartesianism
The religion of the Non-Jurors and the early British enlightenment
The pillars of priestcraft shaken
Karaism and Christian Hebraism
The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law
Cranmer and the Fathers, especially in the Defence
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Intellectual History and 'The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment
Entre croire et savoir
The Descent of Ideas
The World Makers
Protestant versus Prophet
For Lust of Knowing. Orientalists and their Enemies
Matthew Tindal's Rights of the Christian Church (1706) and the Church–state Relationship
How (not) to Get Published
Hugh Trevor-Roper
Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism in the Enlightenment
Georg Calixtus, Isaac Casaubon, and the Consensus of Antiquity
From Sukkot to Saturnalia
Idolatrous Cultures and the Practice of Religion
Idolatry and Science
Theology, Ethnography, and the Historicization of Idolatry
Melanchthon and Patristic Thought. The Doctrines of Christ and Grace, the Trinity and the Creation
Joseph Scaliger and Historical Chronology
Sacred and Profane
Josephus on Jesus
Jacques Basnage and the History of the Jews
Maimonides and the Rise and Fall of the Sabians
Judaism in the Theology of Sir Isaac Newton
John Spencer and the Roots of Idolatry
Isaac Newton and Oriental Jones on Myth, Ancient History, and the Relative Prestige of Peoples
The Legend of Noah
| Unique citing works | 21 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |