Author : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498239161
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Three Skeptics and the Bible by : Jeffrey L. Morrow
Download or read book Three Skeptics and the Bible written by Jeffrey L. Morrow and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern biblical criticism.