The Bible and the Enlightenment

A Case Study: Alexander Geddes 1737-1802

William Johnstone

• Publisher: Continuum
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN: 9780826466549
• eBook ISBN: 9780826440693
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Theology

This volume contains the proceedings of a conference held to mark the bicentenary of the death of Alexander Geddes (1737-1802). Geddes, a product of the Scottish and French Enlightenment, was a Roman Catholic priest; a pioneering biblical critic; a poet, some of whose works have been attributed to Robert Burns; and a political radical who studied in Paris before the French Revolution, which provided the background to the chief phase of his activity, ca. 1780-1800. This work is of interest to historians and to students of the Bible and English literature. The international panel of contributors includes Tom Levine on the political social and religious background, A.G. Aulg, Bultmann, C. Coury, J.W. Rogerson, J.L. Ska and M. Vervenne on Geddes's biblical works, and Elinor Shaffer, G. Carruthers and L. McIlvanney on his literary works.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Introduction: The Bible and the Enlightenment
• Alexander Geddes: The Scottish Context
• Alexander Geddes and his Unpublished Papers
• Scattered Remains: The Literary Career of Alexander Geddes
• Geddes in France
• What do we Mean when we Talk about '(Late) Enlightenment Biblical Criticism'?
• The Biblical Work of Alexander Geddes against the Background of Contemporary Catholic Biblical Scholarship in Continental Europe
• Was Geddes a 'Fragmentist'? In Search of the 'Geddes–Vater Hypothesis'
• Alexander Geddes between Old and New: Story and History in the Book of Numbers
• Alexander Geddes on the Historical Books of the Hebrew Bible
• Cumulative Bibliography
• Index of References
• Index of Authors