{"product_id":"scriptural-authority-and-biblical-criticism-in-the-dutch-golden-age-9780198806837","title":"Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age","description":"\u003cem\u003eScriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age\u003c\/em\u003e explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dick Van Miert,Henk Nellen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 466\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198806837\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDirk van Miert \u003c\/strong\u003eis Assistant Professor of Early Modern Cultural History at Utrecht University. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHenk Nellen \u003c\/strong\u003eis Senior Research Member at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences at Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas of Early-Modern Times in the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePiet Steenbakkers \u003c\/strong\u003eis Senior Lecturer of the History of Modern Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Utrecht and Emeritus Professor of Spinoza Studies at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJetze Touber \u003c\/strong\u003eis Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at the University of Utrecht.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43967230509171,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":175.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_de8dbe71-bb99-4887-9e9e-ec0eac4cd32d.jpg?v=1760181676","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/scriptural-authority-and-biblical-criticism-in-the-dutch-golden-age-9780198806837","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}