The Apocryphal Apocalypse - The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

The first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The author discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation.

About the author

Formerly Professor of English, University of Urbino, Italy; Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas, University of Leiden, Holland, since 1986; Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam, since 1987

Summary

The first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The author discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation.

Additional text

The work reads like a good novel, but is a very scholarly production, evidence of immense research ... we have reason to be grateful to this author for putting his tremendous erudition at our disposal in this volume

Product details

• Authors: Alastair Hamilton
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.1999
• EAN: 9780198175216
• ISBN: 978-0-19-817521-6
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 223 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 637 g
• Illustrations: frontispiece
• Series: Oxford-Warburg Studies; Oxford-Warburg Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Meditations / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Christianity, General & world history, History of Religion, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Bible readings, selections & meditations, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, General and world history, Church history, Bible readings, selections and meditations, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599