Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Things New and Old: Loisy's Place in the Controversy over Modernism
2. The Bible and Its Ancient Near Eastern Milieu in Nineteenth-Century France
3. Loisy’s Work in the Study of the Ancient Near East and the Old Testament
4. Loisy on the Book of Genesis in Light of Mesopotamian Literature
5. Back to the Sources: The History of the Source Critical Tradition upon Which Loisy Drew
6. Loisy’s Engagement with Biblical Scholarship: Fr. Richard Simon as Heroic Symbol
7. Loisy’s Defense of Historical Biblical Criticism
Conclusion
Selected Bibliography
Index