Cover illustration: Joseph Reading to the Pharaoh, by Lawrence Alma Tadema. Image in the public domain.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Schlichter, Felix, author.
Title: Mythology, chronology, idolatry : pagan antiquity and the biblical text in the scholarly world of Guillaume Bonjour (1670-1714) / by Felix Schlichter.
Description: Leiden : Brill, [2025] | Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 355 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2024045720 (print) | LCCN 2024045721 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004684959 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004684966 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Bonjour, Guillaume, 1670-1714.
Classification: LCC BX4705.B57635 S35 2025 (print) | LCC BX4705.B57635 (ebook) | DDC 261.2--dc23/eng/20241122
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024045720
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2024045721
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ISSN 0920-8607
ISBN 978-90-04-68495-9 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-68496-6 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004684966
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