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

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 cri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morrow, Jeffrey L., 1978-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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 Peyrere, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eightee.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (198 pages)
ISBN:9781498239158
1498239153