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1 online resource |
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Cover; Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's Word Questioned; Copyright; Preface; Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Editors' Introduction; BIBLICAL CRITICISM AS AN INNOVATIVE DISCIPLINE; THEMES AND ISSUES; GATHERING THE STRANDS; 1: Biblical Philology in the Long Seventeenth Century: New Orientations; Biblical Philology; Literary Conservatism; Interconfessional Strife and the Status of the Bible; The Epistemic Downgrading of Revealed Doctrines by Irenic Writers; The Eccentric Position of Innovative Exegetes |
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Dismantling the Divine Mesage: Thomas Hobes and Lodewijk Meyer; The Bible Seen from Outside the Christian Tradition: Spinoza as a Biblical Critic; By Way of Conclusion: An Evaluative Note; Part I: Famous Cases of pia fraus; 2: The Johannine Comma from Erasmus to Westminster; 3: Stronger than Fiction: The 'Velesian Readings' of the Greek New Testament; INTRODUCTION; THE 'VELESIAN READINGS': THE SHORT VERSION; THE ORIGIN OF THE 'VELESIAN READINGS'; THE SOURCES; DISSEMINATION AND INCIDENTAL CRITICISM; COMPLETE DEMISE; WHAT DID FAJARDO WANT?; CONCLUSION: LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES |
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Part II: The Boundaries of Early Modern Orthodoxy Challenged; 4: The Janus Face of Scaliger's Philological Heritage: The Biblical Annotations of Heinsius and Grotius; INTRODUCTION; JOSEPH SCALIGER: 'I WISH I WERE A GOOD GRAMMARIAN'; DANIEL HEINSIUS: BASHING BEZA AND HELPING HELLENISM; HUGO GROTIUS: IRENICISM AND ECUMENISM; THE EMBODIED BIBLICAL PHILOLOGIST; 5: The Naked Truth of Scripture: André Rivet between Bellarmine and Grotius; Part III: The Bible in Early Modern Judaism; 6: God's Word Confirmed: Authority, Truth, and the Text of the Early Modern Jewish Bible |
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PREAMBLE: THE RABBIS AND THE TEXT; THE MORAL BIBLE OF EARLY MODERN ASHKENAZ; SEPHARDI EXPERIENCE AS INTELLECTUAL PARADIGM; (RE)JUDAIZING SCRIPTURE; A BIBLE WITH OR WITHOUT THE RABBIS?; Defining the Stakes: The Da Costa-Da Silva Controversy; Understanding the Law through the Law: Aboab's Nomologia; A Format in Search of Content: The Conciliador by Rabbi Menasseh ben Israel; SUMMING UP: AUTHORITY, TRUTH, AND TEXT IN EARLY MODERN JUDAISM; 7: God's Word Defended: Menasseh ben Israel, Biblical Chronology, and the Erosion of Biblical Authority; INTRODUCTION |
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BIBLICAL CONTRADICTIONS AND INFALLIBILITY: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN CONTEXTS; MATHEMATICAL PRECISION, BIBLICAL INFALLIBILITY, AND THE ISRAELITE JUDGES; THE GREATEST PROBLEM THAT THERE IS IN SCRIPTURE; CONCLUSION: THE REVERBERATIONS OF JEWISH BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY; Part IV: Benedictus de Spinoza: Ancestry and Heritage; 8: Spinoza's Hermeneutics: Some Heretical Thoughts; 9: How Did Spinoza Declare War on Theology and Theologians?; Part V: Innovative Exegesis by Remonstrant, Mennonite, and Other Liberal Thinkers |
| Summary |
A collection of original essays on biblical criticism and the process of secularization in the Netherlands during the long seventeenth century, as advances in the field of philology drew into question the authority of Scripture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Netherlands -- History
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Bible fast |
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Bibel gnd |
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BIBLES -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
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Religion
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Autorität
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Bibelkritik
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Hermeneutik
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Netherlands -- Religion -- 17th century
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Netherlands
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Niederlande
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Miert, Dirk van.
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Nellen, Henk J. M., 1949-
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Steenbakkers, Piet.
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Touber, Jetze.
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| ISBN |
9780191844379 |
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0191844373 |
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9780192529817 |
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0192529811 |
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