 Cover of the fourth edition, 1708 | |
| Author | Samuel Bochart |
|---|---|
| Language | Latin |
| Genre | Biblical criticism |
Publication date | 1646 |
| Publication place | Caen, France |
Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (in English: "Sacred Geography or Peleg and Canaan") is a work of biblical criticism and world history by French author Samuel Bochart, first published in 1646. It was originally written in two books, combined in later editions.
The first volume, entitled Phaleg, seu de Dispersione Gentium et Terrarum Divisione Facta in Aedificatione Turris Babel ("Peleg or the Dispersion of Nations and the Division of Lands Made in the Building of the Tower of Babel"), was devoted to the Generations of Noah and the modern names of the tribes lists in Genesis 10. The second book, originally entitled Chanaan seu de Coloniis Et Sermone Phoenicum ("Canaan or On the Colonies and the Phoenician Language"), studied the history of Phoenician colonization and the Phoenician and Punic languages.[1][2] The work was highly influential in seventeenth-century Biblical exegesis and modern Phoenician historiography.
Peleg was the first detailed analysis of the Generations of Noah since classical times, becoming – and remaining – the locus classicus for such scholarship.[3]
Canaan was the first full-length book devoted to the Phoenicians, creating a framework narrative for future scholars of a maritime-based trading society with linguistic and philological influence across the region.[4] By doing this, the work also established the foundations for the comparative science of Semitic antiquities.[5][6]
- ^ Bérard 1902, p. 44
- ^ Shalev 2012, p. 141.
- ^ Stroumsa 2010, p. 84a: “In any case, Bochart's Geographia sacra would remain the locus classicus for this kind of biblical scholarship, and his seminal analysis would long retain a place of honor in scholarly literature. ”
- ^ Burman, Annie; Boyes, Philip J. (1 October 2021). "When the Phoenicians Were Swedish: Rudbeck's Atlantica and Phoenician Studies". The Journal of the American Oriental Society. 141 (4): 749–767. doi:10.7817/jameroriesoci.141.4.0749. ISSN 0003-0279. S2CID 245551968. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
The first full-length work devoted to the Phoenicians was Samuel Bochart's Geographia Sacra (1646)... In many ways, the Geographia Sacra sets the pattern for the predominant modes of engagement with the Phoenicians to this day: focus on their maritime voyages and impact on the classical world on the one hand; the Phoenician language's linguistic and philological relationship with Greek and Hebrew on the other.
- ^ Stroumsa 2010, p. 76: "In the next chapter, we turn our attention to Samuel Bochart, another Protestant, who also in 1650 was establishing the foundations of the comparative science of Semitic antiquities."
- ^ Renan, Ernest. “L’EXÉGÈSE BIBLIQUE ET L’ESPRIT FRANÇAIS.” Revue Des Deux Mondes (1829-1971), vol. 60, no. 1, 1865, pp. 235–45. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44726636. Accessed 7 October 2022. "Les ouvrages de Cappel, qui roulent pour la plupart sur des problèmes bien limités et susceptibles d'une solution précise, gardent aujourd'hui toute leur valeur. Si l'on n'en peut dire autant de ceux de Bochart, c'est que les questions qu'il attaqua étaient d'un ordre bien plus délicat, et supposaient des principes généraux decritique et de philologie qui n'étaient pas encore découverts. Plusieurs mauvaises étymologies et quelques naïvetés ne doivent pas faire oublier que Bochart posait vers 1650 les bases de la science comparative des antiquités sémitiques. Le temps était aux grands travaux; un éveil extraordinaire régnait dans les esprits. La rivalité féconde des catholiques et des protestans entretenait un merveilleux zèle pour les études savantes. La fondation définitive de l'exégèse biblique fut le fruit de cette émulation. L'un des deux partis n'aurait pu la produire à lui seul. “
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