Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc

1753 saw the publication of two major works of Old Testament scholarship: Robert Lowth's On the Sacred Poetry of the Hebrews and Jean Astruc's Conjectures on Genesis (published anonymously when Astruc was Professor of Medicine at the College Royal in Paris). Both these works have had conisderable repercussions in biblical study down to the present day. Indeed, they may be said to have inaugurated modern critical approaches to biblical poetry and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567029328
• ISBN13: 9780567029324
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"