Table Of ContentJOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
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Editors
David J.A. Clines
Philip R. Davies
Executive Editor
Andrew Mein
Editorial Board
Richard J. Coggins, Alan Cooper, J. Cheryl Exum,
John Goldingay, Robert P. Gordon, Norman K. Gottwald,
John Jarick, Andrew D.H. Mayes, Carol Meyers,
Patrick D. Miller
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The Bible and the Enlightenment
A Case Study-Dr Alexander Geddes (1737-1802)
(The Proceedings of the Bicentenary
Geddes Conference held at the University of Aberdeen,
1-4 April 2002)
edited by
William Johnstone
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xiii
WILLIAM JOHNSTONE
Introduction: The Bible and the Enlightenment 1
THOMAS M. DEVINE
Alexander Geddes: The Scottish Context 35
CATHARINA F.M. VAN DIJK
Alexander Geddes and his Unpublished Papers 44
GERARD CARRUTHERS
Scattered Remains: The Literary Career of Alexander Geddes 61
BERTRAM EUGENE SCHWARZBACH
Geddes in France 78
CHRISTOPH BULTMANN
What do we Mean when we Talk about
'(Late) Enlightenment Biblical Criticism'? 119
CHARLES CONROY
The Biblical Work of Alexander Geddes
against the Background of Contemporary Catholic
Biblical Scholarship in Continental Europe 135
JOHN W. ROGERSON
Was Geddes a 'Fragmentist'?
In Search of the 'Geddes-Vater Hypothesis' 157
vi The Bible and the Enlightenment
JEAN Louis SKA
Alexander Geddes between Old and New:
Story and History in the Book of Numbers 168
A. GRAEME AULD
Alexander Geddes on the Historical Books
of the Hebrew Bible 181
Cumulative Bibliography 201
Index of References 222
Index of Authors 227
PREFACE
The articles in this volume include papers read at a conference held in the
University of Aberdeen from 1 -4 April 2002 to mark the bicentenary of
the death of Alexander Geddes (4 September 1737-26 February 1802). I
should like first and foremost to acknowledge the contribution of the inter-
national, interdisciplinary and interfaith group of distinguished scholars
who so readily accepted the invitation to read papers, so willingly lent
their expertise, and so fully co-operated in the production of this volume.
It is a pleasure too to acknowledge the financial sponsorship of the British
Academy, the Most Reverend Mario Conti, Roman Catholic Archbishop
of Glasgow, the Reverend Dr Reginald C. Fuller, Geddes's modern biog-
rapher, and the Right Honourable the Lord Petre, whose ancestors, the ninth
and, for Geddes's last year, the tenth, Lord Petre, were for over twenty
years the indispensable and generous patrons of his work. But assistance
in organizing the conference spread far beyond the financial: I am indebted
to Reginald Fuller for introducing me to Gerard Carruthers, who in turn
introduced me to Catharina van Dijk; to John Rogerson for proposing the
participation of Christoph Bultmann; and to Andre Lemaire for suggesting
the name of Bertram Eugene Schwarzbach. I am further indebted to Philip
Davies for accepting this volume into the Supplement Series of the
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. I should also like to thank the
Society for Old Testament Study for associating itself with the conference.
Thanks are also due to the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the Univer-
sity of Aberdeen for hospitality and to the Faculty of Arts and Divinity
Research Committee for underwriting the conference. I am most grateful
to the University for providing me with office accommodation and facili-
ties for running the conference during this final, 'extra' year, to Ian Pirie
and his staff in the conference office and to the secretarial staff in the
Divinity and Religious Studies department for their assistance. I am par-
ticularly indebted to Mrs Jacqueline Armstrong for supervising the domes-
tic arrangements at the conference. For the task of editing this volume the
assistance of the staff in Historic Collections in Aberdeen University
Library has been invaluable.
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These words are written precisely 40 years to the month since my first
arrival in Aberdeen, as Lecturer in Hebrew and Semitic Languages. It is a
matter for particular satisfaction to me that the moment of severance of
immediate physical association with the University should be marked by a
celebration commemorating a notable son of the northeast of Scotland
who is one of the University of Aberdeen's distinguished honorary gradu-
ates.
William Johnstone
1 September 2002
King's College, University of Aberdeen
ABBREVIATIONS
General Abbreviations
AB
Anchor Bible
ABD
David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary
(New York: Doubleday, 1992)
ADB Allgemeine Deutsche Biographic, hrsg. durch die Historische
Kommission bei der konigl. Akademie der Wissenschaften
(Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, 1875-1912)
AID Das Alte Testament Deutsch
AV Authorized (King James) Version
BBKL Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon, begriindet
und hrsg. von Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz; fortgefuhrt von
Traugott Bautz (Herzberg: Verlag Traugott Bautz, 1975-2001)
[The articles are also available online, in some cases updated,
at www.bautz.de/bbkl]
BZAW Beihefte zur ZA W
EncJud Encyclopaedia Judaica
GNB Good News Bible
Hastings DB James Hastings (ed.), Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols.;
Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1898-1904)
HAT Handbuch zum Alten Testament
ICC International Critical Commentary
IDE George Arthur Buttrick (ed.), The Interpreter's Dictionary of
the Bible (4 vols.; Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1962)
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JSOTSup Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series
KBL L. Koehler and W. Baumgartner (eds.), Hebraisches und
Aramdisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament (Leiden: E.J. Brill,
1967-96, 3rd edn)
KJV King James (Authorized) Version
LCL Loeb Classical Library
NCBC New Century Bible Commentary
NDB Neue Deutsche Biographic. Hrsg. von der Historischen
Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1953-)
NEB New English Bible
NICOT New International Commentary on the Old Testament
