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Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) - The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist (Hardcover): Asaph Ben-Tov Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) - The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist (Hardcover)
Asaph Ben-Tov
R3,177 Discovery Miles 31 770 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic culture of his day, especially of seventeenth-century oriental studies. His extant Nachlassallows a close scrutiny of the life and work of an early modern scholar, focussing on his training, travels, the ambitious Harmonia linguarum orientalium (1647) and other works, and the interests he fostered as a professor of history and theology in Jena. It aims to shed light on the broad and understudied field of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Germany.

Knowledge and Profanation - Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship (Hardcover): Martin Mulsow, Asaph... Knowledge and Profanation - Transgressing the Boundaries of Religion in Premodern Scholarship (Hardcover)
Martin Mulsow, Asaph Ben-Tov
R3,460 Discovery Miles 34 600 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions - occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world? In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors. Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.

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