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The Oriental ‘Illustration’ of the Bible in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain The Oriental ‘Illustration’ of the Bible in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Oriental learning and the fight against ‘modern fanaticism’ Oriental learning and the fight against ‘modern fanaticism’
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The Harmony of History and Revelation: Prophecy and the Limits of Orientalism The Harmony of History and Revelation: Prophecy and the Limits of Orientalism
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The ‘Voice From Heaven’: Eustace Rogers Conder and the Rejection of Higher Criticism The ‘Voice From Heaven’: Eustace Rogers Conder and the Rejection of Higher Criticism
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The Perils of Orientalism: Francis Roubiliac Conder and the ‘Aryan Moment’ The Perils of Orientalism: Francis Roubiliac Conder and the ‘Aryan Moment’
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Conclusion Conclusion
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8 Conder and Sons: Dissent and the Oriental Bible in Nineteenth-Century Britain
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Published:October 2013
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Abstract
This chapter uses the case study of the Congregational journalist and scholar Josiah Conder (1789-1855) to explore the sustained and pragmatic engagement of evangelical nonconformists with the orientalising study of the Bible in early nineteenth-century Britain. It has often been thought that the political and eschatological passions of British evangelicals in this period caused them to recoil from the study by German scholars of the Bible as an oriental text. Yet this picture turns out to be true mainly for evangelicals in the established churches. As intellectual leaders of evangelical nonconformity, Congregationalists found orientalising criticism useful in deriving support for their liberal politics and optimistic eschatology from the Bible. The chapter notes though that this enthusiasm was always qualified and that as the example of Conder’s sons shows it became markedly harder for Congregationalists to reconcile their interest in such criticism with their commitment to a scriptural politics from mid-century onwards.
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