WAGNER, GEORGE THOMAS. Johann Christian Edelmanns, Verblendete Anblicke, des Moses mit aufgedecktem Angesicht, nach ihrer wahren Beschaffenheit ["Johann Christian Edelmann's Blind Sight: A critique of Edelmann's earlier work]

(SPINOZISM)

Johann Friedrich Fleischer

Frankfurt and Leipzig

1747

FIRST EDITION. Three parts in one. German inrerspersed with Hebrew

Johann Christian Edelmann (1698-1767) was the first German scholar of Spinozism. Inspired by the reading of Spinoza's Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, Edelmann in wrote in 1740 a three-part work Moses mit aufgedecktem Angesicht. A renegade from Christianity, Edelmann's work was burnt and the Author forced to live the life of a recluse. The Author of the present work, Georg Thomas Wagner, an Evangelist preacher in Frankfurt a/Main, attacks here the Bible criticism of Edelmans as inspired by Spinoza. See Walter Grossman, J.C. Edelmann: From Orthodoxy to Enlightenment.