Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

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At their strongest, the chapters in this volume begin to put forward intriguing and significant new interpretations of seventeenth-century biblical scholarship. ...they reveal a snapshot of a subject in rapid transition, one increasingly focused on new--and more interesting-- questions, which have the promise to alter our understanding of early modern biblical scholarship. * Timothy Twining, The English Historical Review * gives an idea of the wide scope of early modern biblical philology, avoiding the pitfall of focusing only on elements that fit our present picture of "modernization". * Rienk Vermij, Isis * the volume gives a wonderful overview of Dutch seventeenth-century biblical scholarship in the Golden Age, from orthodox, libertine, and Jewish points of view, and even in the period after the Golden Age Republic had waned in the 1670s. Of course, not everything or everybody is covered, but those who want to learn about seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century biblical scholarship will find much valuable in this collection of essays. * Jan Bloemendal, Renaissance Quarterly * This is a useful and in several cases outstanding collection of essays that confirm the longer-term significance of late humanist biblical scholarship and explain several otherwise inexplicable aspects of the passage from post- Reformation and Renaissance intellectual culture into the early Enlightenment... The essays gathered in this volume show that historians of biblical criticism are beginning but only just to understand what it will take to write a multi-faceted, fully contextualized account of their subject. * Grotiana 39 * 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. * Eric Carlsson, Reading Religion *