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Radical Philology
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Chapter 7 shows that Claude Saumaise provided, willy-nilly, a prop for Isaac de La Peyrère to support his heretical theory of the Men before Adam. The chapter demonstrates the importance of the medium in which biblical philology was conducted: La Peyrère made creative use of the scholarship of Scaliger and Saumaise and was accepted as company by the likes of André Rivet, as long as he kept his theory within very limited circulation. As soon as he went public, however, he was ostracized and banished from the Republic of Letters. His book on the pre-Adamites was refuted even in academic disputations. These disputations demonstrate the rise of biblical philology as a subject, fit for teaching students. It was particularly in the 1650s that this type of philological disputation emerged. The pre-Adamites are another example of how biblical scholarship conquered the vernacular public sphere, through accessible pamphlets by Isaac Vossius and Hornius.
Title: Radical Philology
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Chapter 7 shows that Claude Saumaise provided, willy-nilly, a prop for Isaac de La Peyrère to support his heretical theory of the Men before Adam.
The chapter demonstrates the importance of the medium in which biblical philology was conducted: La Peyrère made creative use of the scholarship of Scaliger and Saumaise and was accepted as company by the likes of André Rivet, as long as he kept his theory within very limited circulation.
As soon as he went public, however, he was ostracized and banished from the Republic of Letters.
His book on the pre-Adamites was refuted even in academic disputations.
These disputations demonstrate the rise of biblical philology as a subject, fit for teaching students.
It was particularly in the 1650s that this type of philological disputation emerged.
The pre-Adamites are another example of how biblical scholarship conquered the vernacular public sphere, through accessible pamphlets by Isaac Vossius and Hornius.
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