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Theology, Politics, And Exegesis: Essays On The History Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow
Theology, Politics, And Exegesis: Essays On The History Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow
Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.
Modern biblical scholars often view the methods they employ as objective and neutral, tracing the history of modern biblical scholarship to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This volume examines some earlier, lesser known roots of modern biblical scholarship. It explores biblical scholarship from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries and then discusses its new place in the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century where such scholarship would flourish. Far from merely an objective and neutral method, such scholarship was never without philosophical, theological, and political underpinnings. The book concludes with a look at the separation of biblical studies from theology, using …
Three Skeptics And The Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, And The Reception Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow
Three Skeptics And The Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, And The Reception Of Modern Biblical Criticism, Jeffrey Morrow
Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.
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 …
“The Politics Of Biblical Interpretation: A ‘Criticism Of Criticism.’”, Jeffrey Morrow
“The Politics Of Biblical Interpretation: A ‘Criticism Of Criticism.’”, Jeffrey Morrow
Jeffrey L. Morrow, Ph.D.
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