TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frampton,Travis L.
TI  - Spinoza and the rise of historical criticism of the Bible
SN  - 0567025934
U1  - 298.20609032 20A
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - T&T Clark
KW  - Bible
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - 17th century
N1  - Bibliogr. p. 237-255; Introduction: the religious impetus behind rational critiques of Scripture -- Spinoza research in religious studies -- Protestantism and the historical sense of Scripture -- The Reformation and the questions of religious authority : a theological-political crisis -- The Reformation and the quest for religious certainty : overcoming skepticism -- The theological-political climate of the Netherlands -- The late sixteenth century -- The early seventeenth century -- La vie de Monsieur Benoit de Spinosa : sketching a portrait of Spinoza -- A sketching on canvas -- Studying the sketch -- La vie as a rhetorical defense : reconsidering genre -- The Jewish-Portuguese merchant of Amsterdam : Baruch/Bento de Espinosa -- Spinoza in other early sources : painting over La vie -- From Purtugal to the United Provinces -- Amsterdam (1632-56) -- Benedictus de Spinoza among heterodox Christians -- Religious heterodoxy in Amsterdam -- Spinoza and the collegiants -- Franciscus van den Enden and his coterie -- Religious heterodoxy and Spinoza studies -- Reevaluating the historical context for the rise of historical criticism -- The importance of the seventeenth century in the history of biblical scholarship -- The two books of God : nature and Scripture -- Seventeenth-century heterodox Christian biblical criticism -- Spinoza's method -- La Payrère, Fisher, and Spinoza -- Conclusion
ER  -