Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry

Download or read book Mythology, Chronology, Idolatry written by Felix Schlichter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-12-19 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work offers the first major study of the Augustinian historian and missionary Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) and places Bonjour’s hitherto unstudied contributions to pagan mythography, biblical chronology, and ancient religion in their historical, intellectual context. It argues that Bonjour was part of a prominent scholarly tradition which advanced a new understanding of and approach to studying pagan antiquity, an approach which, if developed with the intention of elucidating and further confirming traditional assumptions about the authority of biblical history, nevertheless proved innovative for the way in which it postulated a new relationship between the “sacred” and the “profane” in ancient history.