ABSTRACT
"Conventional scholarship should not dismiss it, or be frightened off by its unusual blending of disciplines", wrote Peter Auski, "it is a novel and extremely useful point of departure" for further developments in this field. Turning the people attention to the Masorah, Grafton demonstrates how Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon drew on a long history of scholarship on Hebrew in Hebrew in their efforts to reconstruct ancient arts of criticism in the service of philology. Both Shuger and Grafton, in turn, reorient the history of "religion" in early modernity according to the local vicissitudes of scholarship rather than more familiar divisions across regions and confessions. Much of The Renaissance Bible is devoted to theses on Christ's suffering and satisfaction, and Shuger's claims on sacrifice and subjectivity rank among the work's most enduring contributions. Examining both early modern scholarship on religion and the interpretive traditions it gives rise to, Guibbory crucially resituates an evolving Christian Hebraism at heart of this discourse.
