The Limits of Erudition

The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe

Timothy Twining (KU Leuven)

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English

Cambridge University Press
12 December 2024

European history; Early modern history: c 1450 to c 1700; Western philosophy: Enlightenment; Religion & politics; History of ideas

Series: Ideas in Context

The history of early modern biblical scholarship has often been told as a teleological narrative in which a succession of radical thinkers dethroned the authority of the sacred word. This book tells a very different story. Drawing on a mass of archival sources, Timothy Twining reconstructs the religious, cultural, and institutional contexts in which the text of the Old Testament was considered and contested throughout post-Reformation Europe. In so doing, this book brings to light a vast array of figures from across the confessional spectrum who invested immense energy in studying the Bible. Their efforts, it shows, were not disinterested, but responded to pressing contemporary concerns. The Limits of Erudition employs a novel conceptual framework to resurrect a world where learning mattered to inquisitors and archbishops as much as to antiquaries, and in which the pursuit of erudition was too important to be left to scholars.

By: Timothy Twining (KU Leuven)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781009460958
ISBN 10: 1009460951
Series: Ideas in Context
Pages: 356
Publication Date: 12 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Timothy Twining is a Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven. His research focuses on early modern religion, culture, and intellectual history. Twining has previously contributed articles to journals including the Journal of Ecclesiastical History and the Journal of the History of Ideas.

Reviews for The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe

'The Limits of Erudition is a superlative book - one of the best and most important I've ever read. It is astonishingly rich in every respect, from its mastery of archival detail to the sweep of its gripping and exciting narrative.' Thomas Roebuck, University of East Anglia 'This is a landmark work, written with great lucidity and based on an extraordinary command of the documentary evidence contained in archives all over Europe. Everyone interested in the history of knowledge in early modern Europe will benefit from reading this book.' Sir Noel Malcolm, University of Oxford