Language of Paradise

Jean Loop
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This chapter discusses the discovery of Arabic poetry in Western Europe in the context of Protestant Arabic studies of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The piece centres on the work of the Dutch Orientalist Albert Schultens (1686–1750). His interest in Arabic poetry was driven by the idea that it preserves some of the characteristics of the primeval language and that it can help us understand the original meaning of the Hebrew texts of the Bible. The essay argues that in spite of its shortcomings, Schultens’ work is a significant moment in the history of oriental studies. It stimulated an entire generation of young scholars in Protestant Northern Europe; and his comparative study of Semitic languages, his concepts of the primeval language and its transmission as well as his great interest in the poetry of the East still resonate in early Romantic approaches to oriental poetry.
天堂之语
本章讨论了在17世纪和18世纪早期新教阿拉伯研究的背景下,西欧阿拉伯诗歌的发现。这件作品以荷兰东方学家阿尔伯特·舒尔滕斯(Albert Schultens, 1686-1750)的作品为中心。他之所以对阿拉伯诗歌感兴趣,是因为他认为它保留了原始语言的一些特征,可以帮助我们理解希伯来语圣经文本的原意。本文认为,尽管存在不足之处,舒尔滕斯的工作在东方研究史上是一个重要的时刻。它激励了信奉新教的北欧整整一代年轻学者;他对闪米特语言的比较研究,他对原始语言及其传播的概念,以及他对东方诗歌的极大兴趣,在早期浪漫主义对东方诗歌的研究中仍然引起了共鸣。
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