When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and Eusebius, two scholars of late Roman Caesarea, did far more. Both produced new kinds of books, in which parallel columns made possible critical comparisons previously unenvisioned, whether between biblical texts or between national histories. Eusebius went even farther, creating new research tools, new forms of history and polemic, and a new...
When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used schol...
The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is known through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. This book reveals the real Casaubon as a genuine literary hero. It follows Casaubon as it unearths the lost continent of Hebrew learning - and adds this ancient lore to the well-known Renaissance revival of Latin and Greek.
The French Protestant Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is known through his pedantic namesake in George Eliot's Middlemarch. This book reveals the real Casa...
