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For and Against the Bible: A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Pour Et Contre La Bible (1801)
by Maréchal, Sylvain
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Overview
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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.
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Author: Maréchal, Sylvain
- ISBN: 9781642594263
- Condition: New
- Dimensions: 8.90 x 0.60
- Number Of Pages: 200
- Publication Year: 2021
Language:
English