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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.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Editors' Introduction
- 1: Henk Nellen and Piet Steenbakkers: Biblical Philology in the Long Seventeenth Century: New Orientations
- Part I: Famous Cases of pia fraus
- 2: Grantley McDonald: The Johannine Comma from Erasmus to Westminster
- 3: Jan Krans: Stronger than Fiction: The 'Velesian Readings' of the Greek New Testament
- Part II: The Boundaries of Early Modern Orthodoxy Challenged
- 4: Dirk van Miert: The Janus Face of Scaliger's Philological Heritage: The Biblical Annotations of Heinsius and Grotius
- 5: Anthony Ossa-Richardson: The Naked Truth of Scripture: André Rivet between Bellarmine and Grotius
- Part III: Old Testament Judaism
- 6: David Kromhout and Irene E. Zwiep: God's Word Confirmed: Authority, Truth, and the Text of the Early Modern Jewish Bible
- 7: Benjamin Fisher: God's Word Defended: Menasseh ben Israel, Biblical Chronology, and the Erosion of Biblical Authority
- Part IV: Benedictus de Spinoza: Ancestry and Heritage
- 8: Anthony Grafton: Spinoza's Hermeneutics: Some Heretical Thoughts
- 9: Jonathan Israel: How Did Spinoza Declare War on Theology and Theologians?
- Part V: Innovative Exegesis by Remonstrant, Mennonite, and Other Liberal Thinkers
- 10: K¿stutis Daugirdas: The Biblical Hermeneutics of Philip van Limborch (1633--1712) and Its Intellectual Challenges
- 11: Jean Bernier: Pierre Bayle and Biblical Criticism
- 12: Maria-Cristina Pitassi: Bayle, the Bible, and the Remonstrant Tradition at the Time of the Commentaire philosophique
- 13: Scott Mandelbrote: Witches and Forgers: Anthonie van Dale on Biblical History and the Authority of the Septuagint
- Part VI: Orthodox Reformed Exegetes Enter the Fray
- 14: Aza Goudriaan: Biblical Criticism, Knowledge, and the First Commandment in Gisbertus Voetius (1589--1676)
- 15: Jetze Touber: Biblical Philology and Hermeneutical Debate in the Dutch Republic in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century
- Part VII: Biblical Criticism in the Eighteenth Century
- 16: Martin Mulsow: The Bible as Secular Story: The Northern War and King Josias as Interpreted by Hermann von der Hardt (1660--1746)
- 17: Bernd Roling: Critics of the Critics: Johann Scheuchzer and His Followers in Defence of the Biblical Miracle
- Bibliography
- Index of Locorum
- Index of names and subjects
About the author
Dirk van Miert is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Cultural History at the University of Utrecht.
Henk Nellen is Senior Research Member at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, and Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas of Early-Modern Times in the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam.
Piet Steenbakkers is Senior Lecturer of the History of Modern Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht, and Emeritus Professor of Spinoza Studies at the Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam.
Jetze Touber is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at the University of Utrecht.
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.
Additional text
By treating biblical philology as an engine of religious and philosophical innovation, this book adds to a growing body of new work that highlights the thick lines of continuity running from Renaissance humanism and Reformation-era controversies to the Enlightenment. It will benefit not just specialists in early modern biblical scholarship but anyone interested in the intellectual origins of modernity.
