In 1685, the Edict of Fontainebleau had 55 See, for instance, Bjrn Wittrock, A Contemporary Classic: Shmuel Noah Eisenstadts Research Program in Its Context, in Benjamin Z. Kedar, Ilana Friedrich Silver, and Adam Klin-Oron, eds, Dynamics of Continuity, Patterns of Change: Between World History and Comparative Historical Sociology (Jerusalem: Te Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. ISBN9780192898685 DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192898685.001.0001 Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Links to third party websites are provided by Oxford in good faith and for information only. 72 Lislam et la science, 2. Stroumsa, Guy G.. For the beneft of digital users, indexed terms that span two pages (e.g., 5253) may, on occasion, appear on only one of those pages. While admitting that contemporary Islam did not promote science, al- Afghani argued that this was true of all religions. Strenski, Ivan, Durkheim and the Jews of France (Chicago, IL, London: Chicago University Press, 1997). Oxford University Press USA - OSO. On the opposite side of the thematic spectrum is Isis, a deity who is said to look after the dead. In other words, one could say that a secular age does not refer to a world from which religion has disappeared, but rather to one in which religious and secular ideas both circulate freely, in a complex, sometimes hidden, but always present dialectic, each one in need of the other. In his Comparative Religion, Its Genesis and Growth, published in 1905, Louis Henry Jordan (18551923) analyzed the genesis and growth of a then-blooming approachespecially in Englandto the study of religious phenomena, an approach of which he was the great herald.32 Tis book, which presents a systematic and sympathetic overview of the comparative study of religion in the second half of the nineteenth century, arguably sealed what we may call the foruit of the comparative approach. Bibliography 283 Smith, William Robertson, Te Old Testament in the Jewish Church: Twelve Lectures on Biblical Criticism (Edinburgh: Adam and Black, 1881). Sadly, this approach to Islam has not disappeared among scholars, as noted by Guillaume Dye, Les Grecs, les Arabes et les racines de lEurope: rfexions sur lafaire Gougenheim, Revue Belge de Philologie et dHistoire 87 (2009), 811835, esp. In 1893, the frst Parliament of the Worlds Religions, held in Chicago, represented a major event. We see a strikingly diferent approach in the work of Philippe Borgeaud, whose Aux origines de lhistoire des religions inscribes itself defnitively in the longue dure. 82 See Masuzawa, Te Invention of World Religions, 189191. In Lessings Nathan the Wise, Saladins three sons, each of whom possesses a ring apparently identical to the other two, are called Betrger, impostors. Like most Christian scholars, Wellhausen saw little similarity between the world of the Pharisees and that of Jesus. Aryan peoples of Europe, from Judaism and Islam, the religions of the two main surviving Semitic peoples, the Jews and the Arabs.18 For Renan as for Mller, Aryans (or Indo-Europeans) and Semites were the two main races of humankind. See further Dominique Bourel, La Wissenschaf des Judentums en France, Revue de Synthse 2:4 (1988), 265280. 40 Anquetil Duperron, Correspondance avec le Pre Coeurdoux, Jsuite, de Pondichry, Manuscrits Anquetil Duperron, cote NAF 8871, Vol. Stroumsa, Guy G.. In this book, Smith was developing ideas he had already presented in the entry on Sacrifce in the Encyclopedia Britannica.85 In his preface to the frst edition of Te Religion of the Semites, Smith recalls Wellhausens recent Reste arabischen Heidentums.86 In this work, Wellhausen mined later Arabic texts in order to retrieve the religion of the pre-Islamic Arabs, which he identifed as practitioners of the original Semitic religion. Geplaatst op 3 juli 2022 door 9 Hubert and Maus, Essai, 5 and 21. Persona 5 Royal - Strength Confidant Fusion Guide . In his view, the spirit of the Chinese nation represents the worlds oldest tradition of reason.39 As is well known, Voltaire reserved a special disdain for the Jews, even a virulent hatred of them. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. Mller was convinced that Christianity, a superior religion, provided the best seedbed for the growing of comparative studies of religion. In particular, we will track those who crossed the Rhine, moving from Germany to France in search of academic positions. 25 Entendue avec ces restrictions, lide de race reste la grande explication du pass. In Ernest Renan, Nouvelles considrations sur le caractre gnral des peuples smitiques et en particulier sur leur tendance au monothisme, Journal asiatique 13 (1859), 214282 and 417450 (here 449450). Unlike Marchand, he works as a historian of religion rather than of Orientalism, and he deals at length not only with Germany, but also with scholarship in other countries. Stroumsa, Guy G.. Rogerson points out (103) that Ewald, whose relationship with Genesius was marked by signifcant rivalry, remained a lone fgure. On May 18, 1883, al-Afghani published in the Journal des Dbats a spirited refutation of Renans misperceptions of Islam and bias against Muslims. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. As mentioned previously, Geiger, emboldened by the success of his thesis regarding the Jewish origins of Islam, then sought to do the same with Christianity.43 Renans approving reference to Geiger is all the more signifcant as Geigers thesis regarding the Jewish infuence on Christianity, as noted, had been met with ferce opposition and even slurs on the part of Protestant theologians in Germany (the same people who had wholeheartedly accepted his remarks on the Jewish infuence on Muhammad).44 Clearly, Renan was not afraid of going up against the communis opinio, and was willing to raise the fag of the importance of the post-biblical Jewish sources for an adequate understanding of Jesus in the historical context of his original milieu. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. On their side, Wellhausen and Smith, who were both born more than twenty years afer Renan, and whose scholarly praxis difered strongly from his, ofen followed in his footsteps, incorporating, probably not always consciously, some of his major conceptions. Introduction 7 Christianity remained paradoxically peripheral to the development of the new discipline. Levenson, JonD., Abraham between Torah and Gospel, Te Pre Marquette Lecture in Teology 2011 (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2011). See further, Sander L. Gilman, Freud, Race and Gender (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), 184. Te plotline clearly alludes to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.53 To be sure, Lessing, who was both a radical and much more philosemitic than anyone else among German intellectuals in his generation, is in no way typical of his day, although one may note that philosemitism was not quite unknown in Lessings Germany, in particular among Pietists.54 Tis fact, however, does not impinge on the point made here: the parable of the three rings, which frst appears in eighth-century Syriac literature, was still in currency at the end of the eighteenth century. See Trautmann- Waller, Philologie allemande et tradition juive, 70. Borgeaud, Philippe and Sara Petrella, Le singe de lautre. 15 See W. S. F. Pickering, Mausss Jewish Background: A Biographical Essay, in Wendy James and N.J.Allen, eds, Marcel Mauss: A Centenary Tribute (New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1998), 4360, esp. Te physical conditions, in the desert climate in which they had lived since the dawn of time, were so monotonous as to prevent the development of any complexity in their imagination, in their creativity in felds as diverse as politics, mythology, or the arts. Lucette Valensi, loge de lOrient, loge de lOrientalisme: le jeu dchecs dAnquetil, Revue de lHistoire des Religions 212 (1995), 419452, as well as Pierre Sylvain Filliozat, Anquetil Duperron, un pionnier du voyage scientifque en Inde, Comptes Rendus de lAcadmie des Inscriptions et des Belles-Lettres 149 (2005), 12611280. 39 Ibid., 33: Les Chaldens, les Indiens, les Chinois, me paraissent les nations les plus anciennement polices, a sentence in which adding the Chaldeans to the Indians and the Chinese intimates that even within the ancient Near East, the Hebrews were not the oldest people. Trough the individual cases presented in these pages, I seek to signal several specifc, signifcant, points. In Lagranges view, Reinach sought to pave the way for secularization and the replacement of traditional religions by the religion of social duty, a term that was introduced by Reinach and that resonates now as strikingly Durkheimian. Trautmann-Waller, Cline, Semites and Semitism: From Philology to the Language of Myth, Philological Encounters 2 (2017), 346367. Moreover, anti-Jewish animus never weakened, let alone disappeared, even with the growth of what is now called Islamophobia. 94I am following here Jonathan Decter, Survivals, Debris and Relics: E. B. Tylor, the Orientalist Inheritance, and Medieval Polemics, Journal of the History of the Humanities 5 (2020), 251271. All rights reserved. As I have argued elsewhere, it seems that the new, common use of the notion originates in the writings of the French Arabist Louis Massignon (18831962) and was developed by some of his Maronite students at the Collge de France.9 Scholars have identifed several difculties raised by the concept of Abrahamic religions, to which a number of monographs have been devoted.10 I shall mention in this regard two works by American scholars. Lvi, Sylvain, La doctrine du sacrifce dans les Brhmanas, Bibliothque de lcole Pratique des Hautes tudes, Sciences Religieuses, Vol. Expressions of religion were increasingly regressing from the public sphere to the private one. Stroumsa, Guy G.. Simon-Nahum, Perrine, LOrient dErnest Renan: de ltude des langues lhistoire des religions, Revue germanique internationale 7 (2008), 157168 [= Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Cline Trautmann-Waller, eds, Itinraires orientalistes]. Nothing in Anquetils writings casts doubt on the sincerity of his eforts to approach the Parsee community and its wise men. established on the Koran and their limited scientifc interest results from the Semitic mind, always inferior in science to the Aryan mind. 61 See Minois, Le Trait des trois imposteurs, 299. Cassin, Barbara and Nicolas Ducimetire, eds, Les routes de la traduction, Babel Genve (Paris, Geneva: Gallimard, Fondation Martin Bodmer, 2017). For Goldziher, Islam is the engine of the human history of culture. On Judaism being perceived as a universalist religion by Jewish scholars, see Simon- Nahum, La cit investie, 96, and Simon-Nahum, mergence et spcifcit dune science du judasme franaise (18401890), 2728. On his part, Smith quotes Goldzihers Le culte des anctres et le culte des morts chez les Arabes (Paris: Leroux, 1885) and his Muhammedanische Studien in his own Lectures on the Religion of the Semites, 156, note 2 and 277, note 1. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. On Renans approach to ancient Israel and to contemporary Jews, see Laudyce Rtat, LIsral de Renan (Berne: Peter Lang, 2005). Persona 5 Persona 5 Royal Nebiros Persona Stats And Skills List. It was this diference, they wrote, that enabled one to reach sufciently general conclusions through comparison. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. In Chapter2, we shall see how this tale was shattered by the paradigm shif of the Enlightenment and replaced by the story of the three impostors. Bevilacqua, Alexander, Te Republic of Arab Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018). 137 to cast doubt on Homers historicity, and the mythological school attached to Strausss name. Yet any attempt to deal with the word sacrifce on a metaphorical level is bound to be unsatisfactory if one simply sets aside the original meaning of the term. See Molendijk, Les premiers congrs dhistoire des religions. 25 See note 56 below. Bunsen, Ernst von, Die Einheit der Religionen im Zusammenhange mit den Vlkerwanderungen der Urzeit und der Geheimlehre (Berlin: Trubner, 1870). Just as he did not write much about post-biblical Judaism, he wrote little about Islam. Poliakov, Lon, Histoire de lantismitisme, II: De Voltaire Wagner (Paris: CalmannLvy, 1968). Some among the most talented eventually became fully fedged Semitists, Arabists, or Islamicists.57 In Germany, at the time, Protestant scholars taught in evangelical theological faculties and Catholics in their own theological faculties, while Jewish scholars, who were unable to teach in the existing academic institutions, were usually employed as rabbis. All rights reserved. X (Paris: CalmannLvy, 1961). I (New York: Scribner, Armstrong and Co., 1874), 337374]. Only the denial of their flial relationship can salvage Christianity from being stained by Judaism. Friedrich Niewhner, transl. Others focused on diferent aspects of Oriental languages, cultures, and religions.30 Salomon Munk, Jules Oppert, and Michel Bral eventually became professors at the Collge de France (respectively of Hebrew, Assyriology, and Comparative Grammar). The Red Sprite crew uses the Luxury Bell Mitra provided the protagonist with and creates a diversion allowing him to reach the higher levels of his tower and do combat with him. Salvador is also the frst Jew to have ofered a scholarly study of Christian origins. All rights reserved. A matchless manso grand, that although here all must be judged from a purely scientifc point of view, I would not gainsay those who, struck with the exceptional character of his work, call him God. Rousseaus vision of an original justice and its degeneration in history is emblematic of the times. Stroumsa, Guy G.. Geigers claim shocked German theologians,52 the very same scholars who had welcomed Geigers frst book, on the Jewish roots of Muhammads religion. Stroumsa, Guy G.. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. All rights reserved. Although he expressed gratitude to Geiger for having introduced into the discussion rabbinic texts hitherto ignored by Christian scholars, he rejected the relevance of both the Mishna and the Talmud, on the grounds of their belatedness, for the study of Christian origins. Stroumsa, Guy G.. Kuenen, Abraham, National Religions and Universal Religions, Hibbert Lectures (London and Edinburgh: Williams and Norgate, 1882). More precisely, only by taking cultural transfers into consideration (in particular, between Germany, France, and Britain, as well as the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Sweden) can one explain the genesis and structure of this study. In diferent ways, Jewish and Protestant scholars acclimatized and transformed the research tools, the methods, and the scholarly ethos of German universities. About the latter he writes: les pays lourdement raisonnables comme lAngleterre sont dans limpossibilit dy rien comprendre. [about the religious world of Christian origins] OC, Vol. Since Hellenistic times, a number of Jewish texts, 8 Ibid., 93 C, 326327 LCL; translation emended. Gaskin, C. A., Hume on Religion, in David Fater Norton, ed., Te Cambridge Companion to Hume (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 313344. Biblical studies, Church history, and Christian theology) was traditionally the turf of Protestant and Catholic theological faculties, while the new study of religions other than Christianity and ancient Judaism usually remained split between the philosophical and oriental faculties. Stroumsa, Guy G.. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. Just google chinhodado and Persona 5 Royal and you should get it. ces deux peuples, qui taient deux branches dune mme race. Starting in the Renaissance, there is a long tradition of Lives of Jesus, written by theologians in Latin as well as in French. All rights reserved. A revolution of sorts happened then in nature, which created in various areas of the world Geniuses who would set the pace to the Universe.26 Anquetils route through history includes Egypt and the laws of Pharaoh Menes, Greece in the times of Lycurgus and Solon, Rome before the Empire, dualist Persia, India and the emergence of Buddhism (Fos dogmas), China, divided in various kingdoms, and idolatrous Israel, where the wise were disdained and prophecy was about to end. About that time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man (eige andra auton legein chr). Te Islamicist Henry Corbin has called the necessity for the One to become 14 See AlanF.Segal, Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism (2nd edn; Leiden, Boston, MA: Brill, 2002) and Peter Schfer, Zwei Gtter im Himmel: Gottesvorstellungen in der jdischen Antike (Munich: Beck, 2017). Students from Germany, in particular, a signifcant number among them Jews, came to learn at the feet of the pre-eminent scholars of the day. He would himself publish, in 1939, La religion des anciens Germains, a book that became the core of a polemic launched by Arnaldo Momigliano in the 1980s. All rights reserved. Further distinctions, however, are questionable: the kernel of the moral and intellectual talents of the Hebrews is also to be found among other Semitic nations, just as the kernel of Greek talents exists also among other Aryan nations. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. Braude, Benjamin, Race, esclavage et exgse entre islam, judasme et christianisme, Annales. Once more, Sara Troppers excellent editing saved me from many oddities and infelicities. It compares the New Testament to the Bhagavad-Gita, but does not refer, even in cursory fashion, to the Oriental religions of the early Christian centuries studied by 79 For the best edition, see the frst volume of the Bibliotheca Cumontiana, Scripta Maiora, I: Franz Cumont, Les religions orientales dans le paganisme romain, Corinne Bonnet and Franoise Van Haeperen, eds, with Bastien Toune (Turin: Nino Aragno, 2006). Oxford University Press USA - OSO. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. . With Pythagoras, Greek philosophy teaches the immortality 24 On this topic, see two important volumes: JohannP.Arnason, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, and Bjrn Wittrock, eds, Axial Civilizations and World History, Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture, 4 (Leiden: Brill, 2005); RobertN.Bellah and Hans Joas, eds, Te Axial Age and Its Consequences (Cambridge, MA, London: Harvard University Press, 2012); cf. In his monumental Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Vlker, besonders der Griechen (18101812), Creuzer sought to demonstrate that the origins of Greek religion are to be found in India and that, initially, the religion of Indiaand hence that of Greecewas monotheistic. See the earlier Susannah Heschel, German Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Tool for De- Orientalizing Judaism, New German Critique 39:117 (2012), 91107; cf. Steinthal, Hermann, Zur Charakteristik der semitischen Vlker. hopefully, this is the simplest and easiest way to complete the velvet room twins' fusion requests. Te Dclaration des Droits de lHomme et du Citoyen would enact full religious freedom for all in 1789. Cooper, Jerrald S., Sumerian and Aryan: Racial Teory, Academic Politics and Parisian Assyriology, Revue de lHistoire des Religions 210 (1993), 169205. From the ocean of scholarly literature on the Testimonium Flavianum, one may at least mention Alice Whealey, Josephus on Jesus: Te Testimonium Flavianum Controversy from Late Antiquity to Modern Times (New York: Peter Lang, 2003) and James Carleton Paget, Some observations on Josephus and Christianity, Journal of Teological Studies N.S. From now on, the term religion used in bonam partem would increasingly refer to natural religion, implying disdain, or worse, towards revealed religions in general, and Christianity in particular. Te most sustained Jewish response to Renans denunciation of the Semitic peoples and their creative abilities was ofered by the Hungarian Jewish scholar Ignaz Goldziher (18501921), the most prominent among Jewish scholars of Islam, who would eventually become one of the greatest European scholars in this feld, together with Teodor Nldeke and the Dutch Christiaan Snouk Hurgronje (18571936).28 In Leipzig, where he 26 Daniel Chwolson, I Am Myself a Semite, in his Te Semitic Nations, 54. Learning of the Creator's death, the two demons conspire to claim the throne when the protagonist confronts them. GuyG.Stroumsa. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. Maier notes (184185) that at the time of his process, an article in the Aberdeen Journal had described Smith as having unmistakably Jewish features. 63 On the idea of the Abrahamic religions, see the Conclusion in this volume. 7 See, in particular, RobertJ.Daly, Te Origins of the Christian Doctrine of Sacrifce (London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1978), as well as Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier, Eucharistie, Handbuch der religionsgeschichtliche Grundbegrife, Vol. Hence, any research on one specifc national or linguistic domain is bound to be limited.30 While the study of Islam and that of Judaism form part of the Orientalist enterprise, they obviously also belong to the study of religion. On Maimonides, see Sarah Stroumsa, Maimonides in His World, 84124. Das Volk ist semitischen Ursprung, und auch die Religion trgt die Spuren davon. Julius Wellhausen, Die israelitisch-jdische Religion, 1 (= Introduction to Adolf Jlicher, Adolf Harnack et al., Geschichte der christlichen Religion (Leipzig, Berlin: Teubner, 1906). solar myth during the Enlightenment, the myth of the Aryan Jesus endowed the person of Jesus with cosmic dimensions. Although historians of religions are not in the business of ofering normative statements, they cannot ignore the fact that the comparative study of religions has direct implications for our present societies. Te idea that Moses was born an Egyptian was argued at length by Stewart Houston Chamberlain, in his infamous Foundations of the Nineteenth Century, a book frst published, in German, in 1899. Troughout the long Middle Ages, monotheism constituted the essence of the self-perception of Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. German 634, 669, 745, 112, 114, 11617, 137n.22, 1778, 183n.59, 229; Islamic 12n.26; Jewish 45, 1516, 212, 6384, 1213, 130, 14650, 15461, 156n.30, 157n.35, 161n.42, 167, 16970, 169n.6, 170n.8, 1747, 17981, 180n.48, 1834, 1901, 1956, 198, 21920, 223n.15, 22637, 2446; Modern 456; Muslim 12930; New Testament 202, 205; Old Testament 2079; Orientalist 478, 667; Protestant 3, 1013, 15, 1718, 26, 30, 356, 5960, 66, 70, 7980, 82, 912, 147, 14952, 151n.10, 1545, 159, 161, 161n.42, 198, 21920, 2323, 232n.45, 2356, 246, 24850; traveling956 science 11213; confict between Islam and 1278, 130; contemporary 11415, 11718; history of 2; human 10910; natural 2, 18; of religion 201, 456; Renans view of 129; secular age 1, 89; social18 secularization 12, 79, 1415, 190, 2456; as a process 89, 63, 77; in France during the second half of the nineteenth century 161; in Protestant countries 20; intellectual 101; joint efect of with nationalism 77; of Christian ideas about salvation 8n.18; of institutions of higher learning 1478; of religious studies in the Tird Republic 159; philosophical and theological perceptions of 8; Reinachs approach to 1645 Sminaire Isralite de France1567 Semites (Semiten) 73, 75, 1734, 221, 230; Arabs as Semites? 28 See Jean-Daniel Dubois, Mani, le prophte de lhumanit entire, in Jean-Christophe Attias, Pierre Gisel and Lucie Kaennel, eds, Variations sur une fgure juive (Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2000), 195212. I use Elisabeth Labrousses Reprint of the 1740 edition (Hildesheim, New York: Olms, 1982). Aryans, Semites, and Jewish Scholars 83 Germany, especially in the study of Islam, has been widely recognized. Tere are diferent kinds of comparative cultures, just as there are moments in which certain types of comparison are more natural or more convincing than others. Lavenza For him, Asia was the fatherland of religion, while Europe was that of rational and refexive thought (i.e. This mystery religion thrived in the Roman Empire. Rauwel, Alain, Un sanctuaire lac pour les sciences religieuses, Revue de lHistoire des Religions 237 (2020), 11123. One should perhaps add that Reinachs vocal engagement in favor of Dreyfus did not endear him to many Catholics, who were instinctively anti-Dreyfusards. 95 See Annabel Robinson, Te Life and Work of Jane Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). 15 Ibid., ce parallle nous conduisant naturellement juger que les mmes actions ont le mme principe. He also learned Sanskrit, in order to read Indian texts with Sylvain Lvi, also at the PH.22 Mauss soon became close to the latter, referring to him as his second uncle. Te notion that biblical religion leads to monotheism is not, in and of itself, particularly provocative. Such an approach towards these two religions resonates an old tradition among Christian scholarsa fact worth highlighting here, as it is ofen overlooked by students of Orientalism. See Julius Wellhausen, Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel, with a Reprint of the Article Israel from the Encyclopedia Britannica; Preface by Prof. William Robertson Smith (New York: Meridian, 1957). 27 Il est impossible de soulever ici aucune question de race et de rechercher quel sang coulait dans les veines de celui qui a le plus contribu efacer dans lhumanit les distinctions de sang. On gelil ha-goyyim, see Mark A. Chancey, Te Myth of a Gentile Galilee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. Cultural Transfers and Philologia Orientalis 89 his unceasing efort to weaken the Bibles status, while they served to broaden and bolster Anquetils Christian conviction. See further Chapter 8 in this volume. Indeed, the topic of monotheism was one of the most striking points of agreement in Muslim and Jewish anti-Christian polemics during the Middle Ages. I quote according to the text published in Quinets Oeuvres compltes (Paris: Pagnerre, 1857; reprinted London: Forgotten Books, 2018). Ara Mitama is the counterpart and reflection of the calm Nigi Mitama. For example, they were open to British social anthropology, which also bore directly on the understanding of religion in archaic or primitive societies. Tis was followed by Samuel Purchas, who used the word in his 1614 compendium on the religions of the world, Purchas, his Pilgrimage. Introduction 15 continuities and ruptures in the long history of human interest in the religions of other people. Even before the verdict in Smiths heresy trial, Wellhausen requested his own transfer from a theological faculty to one of Oriental studies. Kramer, Martin, ed., Te Jewish Discovery of Islam: Studies in Honor of Bernard Lewis (Tel Aviv: Moshe Dayan Centre, 1999). Wilhelm, Kurt, Zur Einfhrung in die Wissenschaf des Judentums, in Kurt Wilhelm, ed., Wissenschaf des Judentums im deutschen Sprachbereich: ein Querschnitt (Tbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1967), 158. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Copyright 2021. Shavit, Yaacov, Babel und BibelTe Controversy as a Jewish Event, Leipziger Beitrge zur jdischen Geschichte und Kultur 1 (2003), 263279. Heschel, Susannah, Te Aryan Jesus: Christian Teologians and Nazi Germany (Princeton, NJ, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010). Toland, John, Nazarenus: or Jewish, Gentile, and Mahometan Christianity, ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Atheneum, 1970 [1958]); see further Leo Baeck, Te Pharisees and Other Essays (New York: Schocken, 1947). The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University FROM THE QUARREL OF MONOTHEISM 171 Copyright 2021. 64 See Michel Despland, Lmergence des sciences de la religion: La Monarchie de juillet: Un moment fondateur (Paris, Montreal: LHarmattan, 1999), 33. Renan was fully equipped with all the necessary tools to initiate the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, which we call today the Abrahamic religions. All rights reserved. Other Jewish scholars, from Salomon Munk and Joseph Derenbourg to Isral Lvi and Salomon Reinach, had accepted important roles in that institution. Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran, 2022, shows that Anquetils translations had been made possible thanks to the translations of Sanskrit sacred texts ordered by Emperor Akbar (r. 15561605). On the interaction between Jewish and Islamic philosophy in Andalus, see Sarah Stroumsa, Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain (Princeton, NJ, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019). Stroumsa, Guy G.. Several fne monographs on aspects of nineteenth-century Orientalism have revealed its rich and complex history, as well as the many links, both obvious (starting with linguistic demands) and implicit, between Orientalism and the study of religion.27 Some recent studies, moreover, have brilliantly surveyed the world of modern Orientalism, showing its embeddedness in intellectual and social history. SACRIFICE COMPARED: ISRAEL AND INDIA 235 false idea of totemism. Renans Hebrew was better than his Arabic, a fact that makes the intellectual quality of Averros et lAverrrosme (1852), a book he published when he was only twenty-nine years old, rather remarkable. Te age of reason is also when all manner of religious phenomena started to be investigated seriously. More generally, as noted, some Jewish Orientalists believed that their own ambiguous status in Europe, between East and West, prepared them to become a natural bridge between Europe and the cultures, religions, and peoples of Asia.45 Tus, Jewish scholars started to accentuate their regained Oriental identity, in particular through a nostalgia for the golden age of Islamic Spain (al-Andalus), according to which Jews and their culture had fourished in peaceful coexistence and cross-pollination with their Muslim neighbors. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. Medieval Islamicate civilizations indeed made impressive intellectual eforts to understand the history of religions from a comparative perspective.7 According to Mllers 5 On this, see the analysis of ArieL.Molendijk, Friedrich Max Mller and the Persona of the Oriental Scholar, in Christian Engberts and Herman Paul, eds, Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 18701930 (Leiden, Boston, MA: Brill, 2019), 4563. afer Christianity).68 He seems to have vacillated between the traditional Christian perception of the Prophet as a charlatan (or a false prophet) and a more positive attitude towards him. Sun (Persona 5, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 5 Strikers)Temperance (Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth) Among all peoples, said Steinthal, the Greeks were the ultimate players. It 19 Steinthal, Zur Charakteristik der semitischen Vlker, 331. On the early history of the term anti-Semitism, see Maurice Kriegel, Words and Tings: On the Rise of the Antisemitic Movements and the History of the Term Antisemitism, 18791894, Zion 85 (2020), 375390 [in Hebrew]. Anor notes that in attacking the Sumerists, Halvy was in fact trying to reject anti-Semitic approaches such as that of Renan, but that he did so within the boundaries of the racial discourse. (345). Both the radical and the religious Enlightenments followed in Humes footsteps in their criticism of established religion and in their views on the history of religion.30 In the mid-eighteenth century, Voltaire (16941778), the towering fgure of the Enlightenment, was at the very peak of his intellectual power. Quinets vision of religious history as the development and eforescence of the divine spirit across peoples through history is resoundingly Hegelian. Despite the fact that the book has stimulated a great deal of research, much remains mysterious about its contents, its sources, and the circumstances of its appearance. Rodrigue, Aron, Totems, Taboos, and Jews: Salomon Reinach and the Politics of Scholarship in Fin-de-Sicle France, Jewish Social Studies 10 (2004), 119. In this book, Casaubon was the frst to recognize the pseudepigraphical character of the Hermetic treatises. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. Comparing cultures soon became the method of choice. IV (Paris: Leroux, 1912). The Idea of Semitic Monotheism : The Rise and Fall of a Scholarly Myth, Oxford University Contents Introduction: Te Study of Religion and the Spirit of Orientalism 1 1. On the background of the Scottish Enlightenment, see Colin Kidd, Te World of Mr Casaubon: Britains Wars of Mythography, 17001870 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016); Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Te Devils Tabernacle: Te Pagan Oracles in Early Modern Tought (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013); and John Marenbon, Pagans and Philosophers: Te Problem of Paganism from Augustine to Leibniz (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2015). Oxford University Press USA - OSO. On this project, see Franoise Briquel-Chatonnet and Catherine Fauveaud-Brassaud, Ad majorem scientiae fructum: Le Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum dans les correspondances conserves lInstitut de France, in Corinne Bonnet and Vronique Krings, eds, Scrire et crire sur lAntiquit: lapport des correspondances lhistoire des travaux scientifques (Grenoble: Jrome Millon, 2008), 215228. Oxford University Press USA - OSO. 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