Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry

Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry

Pagan Antiquity and the Biblical Text in the Scholarly World of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714)

Schlichter, Felix

Brill

12/2024

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Acknowledgements


Abbreviations





Introduction





1 Guillaume Bonjour: His Life and His World


?1?Bonjour in Toulouse


?2?Bonjour in Rome


?3?Bonjour in the Republic of Letters


?4?Bonjour in Montefiascone


?5?Bonjour in China - and Beyond





Part 1: Mythology


2 Sacred History and Profane Fables


?1?Historia sacra and historia exotica in the Seventeenth-Century


?2?Samuel Bochart and the Biblical Diffusionist Narrative


?3?Isaac La Peyrere and the Problematization of Sacred History


?4?Pagan Sources for Biblical History: the Case of the Flood


?5?Biblical Authority and the Limits of Pagan Evidence


?6?Sacred History and Profane Fables: a Contested Legacy





3 The Wisdom of the Egyptians


?1?Egypt, Israel, and the Origins of Human Civilization


?2?The Jewish Origins of Egyptian Culture: Serapis


?3?The Jewish Origins of Egyptian Culture: Minos, Menes, and Mercury


?4?Sacred History and the Origins of Human Civilization


?5?Greek Universal History in a Biblical Context





Part 2: Chronology


4 The Chronology of the Septuagint


?1?Biblical Chronologies in the Seventeenth Century


?2?Chronology and the Septuagint in Bonjour's World


?3?Jewish and Pagan Sources in Bonjour's Chronology


?4?Bonjour on the Septuagint


?5?Biblical Scholarship and the Septuagint in Post-Tridentine Rome





5 The Dynasties of Manetho


?1?The Antiquity of Egypt


?2?Manetho in Early Christian Chronography


?3?Manetho after Scaliger


?4?Bonjour's Manetho and His Enemies


?5?Bonjour on Manetho


?6?La Peyrere and the Authority of Manetho





Part 3: Idolatry


6 The Gods of the Heathens


?1?Antiquarianism and the Study of Pagan Religion


?2?Early Modern Histories of Religion


?3?Divine Names and Pagan Onomatolatria


?4?Pagan Ancestor Worship





7 The Religion of China


?1?The Problem of China in the Seventeenth Century


?2?Chinese Debates in Bonjour's Rome


?3?Patristic Apologetics and the History of Idolatry in the Chinese Rites Debate


?4?Pagan Animism and the Chinese Names for God


?5?Historical Context and Ancient Names for God


?6?Bonjour in China: Christian Apologetics at Work





Conclusion


Bibliography


?Manuscript Sources


?Primary Printed Sources


?Printed Secondary Sources





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