The Religion of Israel
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.
Hardcover. Very good. 7.25" x 5", pp xxxi, 288 pp, indexed, in original red cloth. Mild sunning and very slight slant to spine, some bumping to edges of boards, evidence of a bookplate removed from front pastedown. Binding tight, text clean. Translated from the French. Alfred Firmin Loisy (1857-1940) was a French "biblical scholar, linguist, and philosopher of religion, generally credited as the founder of Modernism, a movement within the Roman Catholic Church aimed at revising its dogma to reflect advances in science and philosophy" (wiki). Written during a period of conflict between Loisy and the Roman Catholic hierarchy regarding biblical interpretation, this book argues against a static interpretation of the Old Testament, proposing that the religion of Israel evolved over time, with early Semitic practices slowly adapting to become modern institutionalized Judaism.
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