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Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism

By Jeffrey L. Morrow

Book information

Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Year
2016
ISBN
1498239153, 9781498239158
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
922 kB (944134 bytes)
Pages
198\198
Time added
2017-09-22 22:23:26
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Description

Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism is usually dated. After surveying the earlier medieval origins of modern biblical criticism, the essays in this book focus on the more skeptical works of Isaac La Peyrère, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern biblical criticism.

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