Ernest Renan
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| '''Joseph Ernest Renan''' (27 February 1823 - 2 October 1892) was a [[French people|French]] [[Oriental studies|Orientalist]], expert of [[Semitic languages]] and civilizations, [[philologist]], [[philosopher]], [[biblical scholar]] and [[Biblical criticism|critic]], and [[historian of religion]]. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of [[early Christianity]], and his [[political theory|political]] theories, especially concerning [[nationalism]] and [[national identity]]. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the now-discredited [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry|Khazar theory]], which held that [[Ashkenazi Jews]] were descendants of the [[Khazars]], Turkic peoples who had [[Conversion to Judaism|adopted Jewish religion]] and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their [[khanate]]. | '''Joseph Ernest Renan''' (27 February 1823 - 2 October 1892) was a [[French people|French]] [[Oriental studies|Orientalist]], expert of [[Semitic languages]] and civilizations, [[philologist]], [[philosopher]], [[biblical scholar]] and [[Biblical criticism|critic]], and [[historian of religion]]. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of [[early Christianity]], and his [[political theory|political]] theories, especially concerning [[nationalism]] and [[national identity]]. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the now-discredited [[Khazar hypothesis of Ashkenazi ancestry|Khazar theory]], which held that [[Ashkenazi Jews]] were descendants of the [[Khazars]], Turkic peoples who had [[Conversion to Judaism|adopted Jewish religion]] and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their [[khanate]]. | ||
| ==Works== | ==Works== | ||
| - | * ''Averroès et l'averroïsme'' (1852) | + | * ''[[Averroès et l'averroïsme]]'' (1852) |
| * ''Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques'' (1855) | * ''Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques'' (1855) | ||
| * ''[http://www.archive.org/details/a605978800renauoft Études d'histoire religieuse]'' (1857) | * ''[http://www.archive.org/details/a605978800renauoft Études d'histoire religieuse]'' (1857) | ||
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"Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation."--"What Is a Nation?" by Ernest Renan "L’islam [...] c’est la chaîne la plus lourde que l’humanité ait jamais portée." --Ernest Renan, L'Islamisme et la science: Conférence faite a la Sorbonne le 29 Mars 1883 "Emanciper le musulman de sa religion est le meilleur service qu'on puisse lui rendre." Discours et conférences (1887), p. 407 Jesus was born at Nazareth, a small town of Galilee, which before his time had no celebrity. All his life he was designated by the name of "the Nazarene," and it is only by a rather embarrassed and round-about way, that, in the legends respecting him, he is made to be born at Bethlehem. We shall see later the motive for this supposition, and how it was the necessary consequence of the Messianic character attributed to Jesus. The precise date of his birth is unknown. It took place under the reign of Augustus, about the Roman year 750, probably some years before the year 1 of that era which all civilized people date from the day on which he was born."--The Life of Jesus (1863) by Ernest Renan |
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Joseph Ernest Renan (27 February 1823 - 2 October 1892) was a French Orientalist, expert of Semitic languages and civilizations, philologist, philosopher, biblical scholar and critic, and historian of religion. He is best known for his influential and pioneering historical works on the origins of early Christianity, and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity. Renan is credited as being among the first scholars to advance the now-discredited Khazar theory, which held that Ashkenazi Jews were descendants of the Khazars, Turkic peoples who had adopted Jewish religion and migrated to Western Europe following the collapse of their khanate.
Works
- Averroès et l'averroïsme (1852)
- Histoire générale et système comparé des langues sémitiques (1855)
- Études d'histoire religieuse (1857)
- De l'origine du langage (1858)
- Essais de morale et de critique (1859)
- Le Cantique des cantiques – translation – (1860)
- An essay on the age and antiquity of the Book of Nabathaean agriculture. To which is added an inaugural lecture on the position of the Shemitic nations in the history of civilization (1862)
- Vie de Jésus (1863) (Translation: The Life of Jesus)
- Prière sur l'Acropole – Prayer on the Acropolis (1865)
- Mission de Phénicie (1865-1874)
- L'Antéchrist (1873)
- Caliban (1878)
- Histoire des origines du Christianisme – 8 volumes – (1866–1881) v. 2 v. 3v. 4 v. 5 v. 7
- Histoire du peuple d'Israël – 5 volumes – (1887–1893) History Of The People Of Israel Till The Time Of King David
- Eau de Jouvence (1880)
- Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse (1884)
- Lectures On The Influence Of The Institutions, Thought And Culture Of Rome On Christianity And The Development Of The Catholic Church (1885)
- Le Prêtre de Némi (1885)
- Examen de conscience philosophique (1889)
- La Réforme intellectuelle et morale (1871)
- Qu'est-ce qu'une nation? (Lecture delivered on 11 March 1882 at the Sorbonne)
- L'avenir de la science (1890)
- Cohelet or the preacher (circa 1890)
- Renan's letters from the Holy Land; the correspondence of Ernest Renan with M. Berthelot while gathering material in Italy and the Orient for "The life of Jesus"; tr. by Lorenzo o'Rourke (1904)
