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As well as presenting a new history of seventeenth-century biblical criticism, it also critiques modern scholarly assumptions about the relationships between erudition, humanistic culture, political activism, and religious identity. Book jacket. Scholarly practices varied from one confessional context to another, and the progress of 'criticism' was never straightforward. The study demonstrates this by placing scholarly works in dialogue with works of dogmatic theology, and comparing examples from multiple confessional and national contexts. It offers major revisionist treatments of canonical figures in the history of scholarship, such as Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Selden, Hugo Grotius, and Louis Cappel, based on unstudied archival as well as printed sources; and it places those figures alongside their more marginal, overlooked counterparts. It also contextualizes scholarly correspondence and other forms of intellectual exchange by considering them alongside the records of political and ecclesiastical bodies. Throughout, the study combines the methods of the history of scholarship with techniques drawn from other fields, including literary, political, and religious history. The period between the late Renaissance and the early Enlightenment has long been regarded as the zenith of the 'republic of letters', a pan-European community of like-minded scholars and intellectuals who fostered critical approaches to the study of the Bible and other ancient texts, while renouncing the brutal religio-political disputes that were tearing their continent apart at the same time. Criticism and Confession offers an unprecedentedly comprehensive challenge to this account. Throughout this period, all forms of biblical scholarship were intended to contribute to theological debates, rather than defusing or transcending them, and meaningful collaboration between scholars of different confessions was an exception, rather than the norm. 'Neutrality' was a fiction that obscured the ways in which scholarship served the interests of ecclesiastical and political institutions.

Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Critique et interprétation --- 22.06 <09> --- 22.06 <09> Bible: exegese-- --- 22.06 <09> Bijbel: exegese-- --- Bible: exegese-- --- Bijbel: exegese-- --- Biblia --- Book history --- History of Europe --- criticism --- anno 1600-1699 --- 11.33 Bible study and interpretation. --- Protestants --- Republic of Letters (Society). --- Bible. --- New Testament --- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian --- Critique, interprétation, etc --- Histoire --- 1600-1699. --- Europe.

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"This is a work of literary history in which the author reconstructs the epistolary network of a German philologist and philosopher named Gottfried Leibniz and his extended coterie of far-flung correspondents who exchanged information and insights, by way of letters, about the emergent study of historical linguistics, as a means of retracing the origins of the various peoples of Europe. This book contributes to our understanding of the so-called international Republic of Letters in the early-modern period of Europe and the near East"--

Historical linguistics --- Comparative linguistics --- Comparative philology --- Philology, Comparative --- Diachronic linguistics --- Dynamic linguistics --- Evolutionary linguistics --- Language and languages --- Language and history --- Linguistics --- Methodology --- History --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- G. G. L. L., --- L., G. G. L., --- Leibnitius, Godefridus Guilielmus, --- Leĭbnit︠s︡, G. --- Leĭbnit︠s︡, Gotfrid Vilʹgelʹm, --- Leibnitz, Godefroy-Guillaume, --- Leibniz, G. W., --- Leibniz, Georg Wilhelm, --- Leibnizius, Godefridus Guilielmus, --- Leibnizius, Gotfridus Guilelmus, --- Lithuanus, Georgius Ulicovius, --- Ulicovius Lithuanus, Georgius, --- לייבניץ, גוטפריד וילהם, --- לייבניץ, גוטפריד וילהלם, --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von, --- Von Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, --- Knowledge --- Linguistics. --- Correspondence. --- Republic of Letters (Society) --- TRL --- Historical linguistics. --- Methodology. --- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm --- TRL (Society) --- Respublica literaria (Society)

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This highly original book is the first in-depth study of a footsoldier of the seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters. Its subject, the polymath and schoolteacher Christian Daum, is today completely forgotten, yet left behind one of the largest private archives of any early modern European scholar. On the basis of this unique source, this book portrays schools as focal points of a whole world of Lutheran learning outside of universities and courts, as places not just of education but of intense scholarship, and examines their significance for German culture.Multi-confessional Germany was different from Catholic France and Protestant England in that its network of small cities fostered educational and cultural competition and made possible a much larger and socially open Republic. This book allows us for the first time to understand how the Republic of Letters was constructed from below and how it was possible for individuals from relatively humble backgrounds and occupations to be at the centre of European intellectual life.This book is aimed at other specialists as well as postgraduate students in the fields of cultural and social history, and can also serve as an introduction to recent European literature on early modern scholarship for undergraduate students.

History of civilization --- History of Germany and Austria --- Daum, Christian --- anno 1600-1699 --- Zwickau --- Schools. --- Learning and scholarship. --- Intellectual life. --- Education, Secondary. --- Schools --- Learning and scholarship --- Education, Secondary --- Public institutions --- Education --- Erudition --- Scholarship --- Civilization --- Intellectual life --- Research --- Scholars --- Children --- High school education --- High school students --- Secondary education --- Secondary schools --- Teenagers --- High schools --- Cultural life --- Culture --- History --- Education (Secondary) --- Daum, Christian, --- Republic of Letters (Society) --- TRL (Society) --- Respublica literaria (Society) --- 1600 - 1699 --- Germany. --- Germany --- Alemania --- Ashkenaz --- BRD --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Deutsches Reich --- Deutschland --- Doitsu --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- FRN --- German Uls --- Germania --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Germanyah --- Gjermani --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Jirmānīya --- KhBNGU --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Nimechchyna --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Weimar Republic --- Weimarer Republik --- ХБНГУ --- Германия --- جرمانيا --- ドイツ --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- ドイツ レンポウ キョウワコク --- Germany (East) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Deguo --- 德国 --- Gėrman --- Герман Улс --- Baum, Christian, --- Daum, Christianus, --- Daum, Cstn., --- Daumi, Christiani, --- Daumius, Chr., --- Daumius, Christ., --- Daumius, Christianus, --- Daumus, Christianus, --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- Gėrman --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Jirmānīya --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- República de Alemania --- República Federal de Alemania --- Vācijā --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Europe --- Christian Daum. --- Gerald Strauss. --- German culture. --- German education. --- Holy Roman Empire. --- Latin schools. --- Lutheran schooling. --- humanist education. --- intense scholarship. --- network of correspondents. --- pedagogical method. --- seventeenth-century German Republic of Letters. --- social mobility. --- teacher-scholars. --- Enseignement secondaire --- Savoir et érudition --- Écoles --- 81.01 history of teaching. --- Nachlass. --- Lateinschule. --- Bildungsideal. --- Brief. --- Erziehungsphilosophie. --- Geistesleben. --- Gelehrter. --- Protestantismus. --- Schriftsteller. --- Schule. --- Schulleiter. --- Histoire --- Republic of Letters (Society). --- 1600-1699. --- Allemagne --- Zwickau. --- Vie intellectuelle