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´Kubla Khan´ and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770–1880
E. S. Shaffer
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Hardcover. The development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism. Num Pages: 371 pages. BIC Classification: DSBF. Weight in Grams: 695. Good copy with light shelf wear. Cover is sunned. Light nicks, remains a good readable copy
Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. ... Read more
Dr Schaffer outlines the development of the mythological school of European Biblical criticism, especially its German origins and its reception in England, and studies the influence of this movement in the work of specific writers: Coleridge Hölderlin, Browning, and George Eliot. The 'higher criticism' treated sacred scripture as literature and as history, as the product of its time, and the highest expression of a developing group consciousness; it challenged current views on the authorship and dating of the Pentateuch and the Gospels, on inspiration, prophecy, and canonicity, and formulated a new apologetics closely linked with the growth of Romantic aesthetics. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1975
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
371
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521204781
SKU
KCW0016925
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Reviews for ´Kubla Khan´ and the Fall of Jerusalem: The Mythological School in Biblical Criticism and Secular Literature 1770–1880
' Dr Schaffer's own erudition and her intellectual grasp and clarity are both great. She is one of those rare scholars who can, simultaneously, not only see both the wood and the trees, but point them out to others, offering an aerial perspective, a neat sketch, a botanical analysis, a map and a hint of poetical vision at the same ... Read more