Isaac Casaubon's De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI, published by John Bill in 1614, is the primary scholarly work in which the classicist Casaubon philologically redated the Hermetic writings to the early centuries of the Common Era, against the belief, current since Marsilio Ficino's 1463 translation, that they were genuinely ancient Egyptian wisdom literature. Its authority is that of the founding text of modern Hermetic philology, a redating that later scholarship has broadly upheld. It is a seventeenth century philological argument in its own historical idiom, so a modern claim about Hermetic dating is better anchored in a current scholarly restatement of Casaubon's case alongside the original.
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Isaac Casaubon's De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI, published by John Bill in 1614, the top tier reflecting the founding text of modern Hermetic philology, in which Casaubon redated the Hermetic writings to the early centuries of the Common Era against the belief they were ancient Egyptian wisdom, a redating later scholarship has broadly upheld. It is a seventeenth century philological argument in its own historical idiom, so a modern claim about Hermetic dating is better anchored in a current scholarly restatement of Casaubon's case alongside the original. NotesThe 1614 redating of the Hermetica, against Ficino's 1463 translation.
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AuthorIsaac Casaubon
PublisherJohn Bill
London, 1614, printed posthumously at Eliot's Court Press for the King's Printer John Bill; per library catalogue descriptions (Missouri University of Science and Technology, University of Missouri) of Casaubon's De rebus sacris et ecclesiasticis exercitationes XVI. Publication Year1614
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