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The Idea of Semitic Monotheism - The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Semitic Monotheism - The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth (Hardcover)
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The Idea of Semitic Monotheism examines some major aspects of the
scholarly study of religion in the long nineteenth century-from the
Enlightenment to the First World War. It aims to understand the new
status of Judaism and Islam in the formative period of the new
discipline. Guy G. Stroumsa focuses on the concept of Semitic
monotheism, a concept developed by Ernest Renan around the
mid-nineteenth century on the basis of the postulated and highly
problematic contradistinction between Aryan and Semitic families of
peoples, cultures, and religions. This contradistinction grew from
the Western discovery of Sanskrit and its relationship with
European languages, at the time of the Enlightenment and
Romanticism. Together with the rise of scholarly Orientalism, this
discovery offered new perspectives on the East, as a consequence of
which the Near East was demoted from its traditional status as the
locus of the Biblical revelations. This innovative work studies a
central issue in the modern study of religion. Doing so, however,
it emphasizes the new dualistic taxonomy of religions had major
consequences and sheds new light on the roots of European attitudes
to Jews and Muslims in the twentieth century, up to the present
day.
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