The Bible has always been a contested legacy. Form late antiquity
to the Refomation, debates about the Bible took place at the center
of manifold movements that defined Western civilization. In the
eigtheenth century, Europe's scriptural inheritance surfaced once
again at a critical moment. During the Enlightenment, scholars
guided by a new vision of a post-theological age did not simply
investigate the Bible, they remade it. In place of the familiar
scriptural Bibles that belonged to Christian and Jewish
communities, they created a new form: the academic Bible. In this
book, Michael Legaspi examines the creation of the academic Bible.
Beginning with the fragmentation of biblical interpretation in the
centuries after the Reformation, Legaspi shows how the weakening of
scriptural authority in the Western churches altered the role of
biblical interpretation. In contexts shaped by skepticism and
religious strife, interpreters increasingly operated on the Bible
as a text to be managed by critical tools. These developments
prepared the way for scholars to formalize an approach to biblical
study oriented toward the statist vision of the new universities
and their sponsors. Focusing on a renowned German scholar of the
period, Johann David Michaelis (1717-1791), Legaspi explores the
ways that critics reconceived authority of the Bible by creating an
institutional framework for biblical interpretation designed to
parallel-and replace-scriptural reading. This book offers a new
account of the origins of biblical studies, illuminating the
relation of the Bible to churchly readers, theological
interpreters, academic critics, and people in between. It explains
why, in an age of religious resurgence, modern biblical criticism
may no longer be in a position to serve as the Bible's disciplinary
gatekeeper.
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