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

Sacred Conjectures: The Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 52 -86 85 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851508X378986 Sacred Conjectures: Th e Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc. Edited by John Jarick. London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xvii + 260. Th is volume consists of papers from a conference at Oxford in 2003, which celebrated the 250 th anniversary of the publication of Robert Lowth’s De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum and Jean Astruc’s Conjectures . While Lowth initiated the literary study of the Bible, Astruc is credited with the fi rst formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis. Th e fi rst, and longer, part of the volume is on Lowth, the second on Astruc. Each moves from an essay on the author and his times to his infl uence on subsequent scholarship and contemporary issues. Not only is the section on Lowth longer, but the essays are also in general more substantial. Th is suggests a contrast between the two: whereas Astruc had essentially one idea and was relatively isolated, Lowth was fully integrated in the intellectual currents of his time, had an immense infl uence on subsequent thought, and was very wide-ranging in his http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biblical Interpretation Brill

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

Biblical Interpretation , Volume 18 (1): 85 – Jan 1, 2010

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© 2010 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0927-2569
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10.1163/156851508X378986
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Book Reviews / Biblical Interpretation 18 (2010) 52 -86 85 © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2010 DOI: 10.1163/156851508X378986 Sacred Conjectures: Th e Context and Legacy of Robert Lowth and Jean Astruc. Edited by John Jarick. London: T & T Clark, 2007. Pp. xvii + 260. Th is volume consists of papers from a conference at Oxford in 2003, which celebrated the 250 th anniversary of the publication of Robert Lowth’s De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum and Jean Astruc’s Conjectures . While Lowth initiated the literary study of the Bible, Astruc is credited with the fi rst formulation of the Documentary Hypothesis. Th e fi rst, and longer, part of the volume is on Lowth, the second on Astruc. Each moves from an essay on the author and his times to his infl uence on subsequent scholarship and contemporary issues. Not only is the section on Lowth longer, but the essays are also in general more substantial. Th is suggests a contrast between the two: whereas Astruc had essentially one idea and was relatively isolated, Lowth was fully integrated in the intellectual currents of his time, had an immense infl uence on subsequent thought, and was very wide-ranging in his

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