Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
Pages
480
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Published
2017
- Presents a new history of seventeenth-century biblical criticism
- Critiques modern scholarly assumptions about the relationships between erudition, humanistic culture, political activism, and religious identity
- Addresses multiple confessional and national contexts
- Offers major revisionist treatments of canonical figures in the history of scholarship, such as Joseph Scaliger, Isaac Casaubon, John Selden, Hugo Grotius, and Louis Cappel