Book
Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism
(2016)
Abstract
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 Peyrère, 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.
Keywords
- History of Interpretation,
- History of Exegesis,
- Modern Biblical Criticism,
- Thomas Hobbes,
- Spinoza
Publication Date
2016
Publisher
Pickwick Publications
Citation Information
Jeffrey Morrow. Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism. Eugene(2016) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeffrey-morrow/3/