Scripture and Scholarship in Early Modern EnglandThe Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There have been many publications in the last quarter of a century on heterodoxy, particularly concentrating on the emergence of new sects in the mid-seventeenth century and the perceived onslaught on the clerical establishment by freethinkers and Deists in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century. However, the study of orthodoxy has languished far behind. This volume of complementary essays will be the first to embrace orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture, and in the process question, challenge and redefine what historians mean when they use these terms. The collection will dispel the myth that a critical engagement with sacred texts was the preserve of radical figures: anti-scripturists, Quakers, Deists and freethinkers. For while the work of these people was significant, it formed only part of a far broader debate incorporating figures from across the theological spectrum engaging in a shared discourse. To explore this discourse, scholars have been drawn together from across the fields of history, theology and literary criticism. Areas of investigation include the inspiration, textual integrity and historicity of scriptural texts, the relative authority of canon and apocrypha, prophecy, the comparative merits of texts in different ancient languages, developing tools of critical scholarship, utopian and moral interpretations of scripture and how scholars read the Bible. Through a study of the interrelated themes of orthodoxy and heterodoxy, print culture and the public sphere, and the theory and practice of textual interpretation, our understanding of the histories of religion, theology, scholarship and reading in seventeenth-century England will be enhanced. |
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... more than 10 complete manuscripts , the oldest of fourteenth - century provenance . These texts are generally taken to represent two recensions of unequal length , with the greater part of the shorter recension usually assumed to be the ...
... more than 10 complete manuscripts , the oldest of fourteenth - century provenance . These texts are generally taken to represent two recensions of unequal length , with the greater part of the shorter recension usually assumed to be the ...
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... more appropriate in an Enochic context . Nor is it inconceivable that Josephus reworked or repeated a source containing vestiges of the Watchers myth for he continued by relating that many ' angels of God ' fathered children with women ...
... more appropriate in an Enochic context . Nor is it inconceivable that Josephus reworked or repeated a source containing vestiges of the Watchers myth for he continued by relating that many ' angels of God ' fathered children with women ...
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... more wicked demon - brood , condemned of God along with the authors of their race'.25 It was , however , in his bitter denunciations of women's sexuality and the dangers of pagan vices that Tertullian expounded at greatest length on the ...
... more wicked demon - brood , condemned of God along with the authors of their race'.25 It was , however , in his bitter denunciations of women's sexuality and the dangers of pagan vices that Tertullian expounded at greatest length on the ...
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... more likely written mainly by Moses de Leon ( d.1305 ) , Sefer Ha - Zohar ( The Book of Splendour ) is the most important work of Kabbalistic literature . According to the Zohar the Book of Enoch related that after God caused Enoch to ...
... more likely written mainly by Moses de Leon ( d.1305 ) , Sefer Ha - Zohar ( The Book of Splendour ) is the most important work of Kabbalistic literature . According to the Zohar the Book of Enoch related that after God caused Enoch to ...
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... more spare time to write all of this , or me more patience to copy it out . It contains so many loathsome and shameful things that I would not think it worth reading if I did not know that Jews make a habit of lying , and that even now ...
... more spare time to write all of this , or me more patience to copy it out . It contains so many loathsome and shameful things that I would not think it worth reading if I did not know that Jews make a habit of lying , and that even now ...
Contents
The Genesis Narrative in the Circle of Robert Hooke | |
Jephthahs Daughter in | |
English Scholarship and the Greek Text of the | |
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