| For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Pour Et Contre La Bible (1801) Contributor(s): Delany, Sheila (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004434321 ISBN-13: 9789004434325 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $185.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2020 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Commentary - General - Religion | Agnosticism - Religion | Atheism |
| Physical Information: 216 pages |
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| Publisher Description: In this first translation of Sylvain Mar chal's Bible commentary, Sheila Delany offers an important document in the history of modern European secularization and rationalist Bible criticism. Editor of one of France's best-known radical journals, R volutions de Paris, and author in many genres--drama, poetry, journalism, treatise--Mar chal (1750-1803) embraced the revolutionary egalitarian ideas of Fran ois-No l "Gracchus" Babeuf. As an atheist, he witnessed with dismay the advent of Napoleon and the post-revolutionary return of Catholic fervor. For and Against the Bible was his protest, his reminder of what the nation had endured and of what, at the opening of the nineteenth century, it might still accomplish. Delany's introduction and annotated English translation will be of importance to all interested in Jewish or Christian Bible studies, history of Bible criticism, eighteenth century European rationalism, French atheism, modern European secularism. |
