Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Study of Religion as Cultural Criticism
1. A New World: Religions Unthinkable
2. A New Science: Explorers of Religions
1. Antiquitates Judaicae: The Early Modern Study of Israelite Religion
2. Homeros Hebraios: Homer and the Bible at the Origins of European Culture
Chapter III. From Biblical Philology to the Study of Judaism
1. Noah’s Sons and the Religious Conquest of the Earth
2. Idolatry and Its Roots
1. The Prophet of Iran and Zoroastrianism
2. The Birth of Manichaean Studies
Chapter VI. From Mohammedis Imposturae to the Three Impostors: The Study of Islam and the Enlightenment
1. Chinese Atheism and the Querelle des Rites
2. Enlightenment Perceptions of Roman Religion
Epilogue: From Ritual to Myth
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index of Names
Index of Subjects