TY - BOOK AU - Miert,Dirk van TI - Scriptural authority and biblical criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's word questioned SN - 9780198806837 AV - BS500 .S36 2017 U1 - 220.60949209/032 23 PY - 2017/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Netherlands KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Congresses KW - 18th century KW - Evidences, authority, etc KW - History of doctrines KW - Humanism KW - Philology KW - Study and teaching KW - Intellectual life N1 - "In the course of our project we organized an international conference which took place in Utrecht from 30 August to 1 September 2012, under the title 'God's Word Questioned : Biblical Criticism and Scriptural Authority in the Dutch Golden Age'....The present volume offers the harvest of that lively and stimulating event. It incorporates edited versions of most of the papers read at the conference, as well as some invited chapters by other scholars."--Preface, p. [v]; Includes bibliography (p. [393]-430) and indexes; Biblical philology in the long seventeenth century : new orientations / Henk Nellen and Piet Steenbakkers -- The Johannine comma from Erasmus to Westminster / Grantley McDonald -- Stronger than fiction : the 'Velesian readings' of the Greek New Testament / Jan Krans -- The Janus face of Scaliger's philological heritage : the biblical annotations of Heinsius and Grotius / Dirk van Miert -- The naked truth of Scripture : Andr�� Rivet between Bellarmine and Grotius / Anthony Ossa-Richardson -- God's word confirmed : authority, truth, and the text of the early modern Jewish Bible / David Kromhout and Irene E. Zwiep -- God's word defended : Menasseh ben Israel, biblical chronology, and the erosion of biblical authority / Benjamin Fisher -- Spinoza's hermeneutics : some heretical thoughts / Anthony Grafton -- How did Spinoza declare war on theology and theologians? / Jonathan Israel -- The biblical hermeneutics of Philip van Limborch (1633-1712) and its intellectual challenges / K��estutis Daugirdas -- Pierre Bayle and biblical criticism / Jean Bernier -- Bayle, the Bible, and the Remonstrant tradition at the time of the Commentaire philosophique / Maria-Cristina Pitassi -- Witches and forgers : Anthonie van Dale on biblical history and the authority of the Septuagint / Scott Mandelbrote -- Biblical criticism, knowledge, and the first commandment in Gisbertus Voetius (1589-1676) / Aza Goudriaan -- Biblical philology and hermeneutical debate in the Dutch republic in the second half of the seventeenth century / Jetze Touber -- The Bible as secular story : the northern war and King Josias as interpreted by Hermann von der Hardt (1660-1746) / Martin Mulsow -- Critics of the critics : Johann Scheuchzer and his followers in defence of the biblical miracle / Bernd Roling ER -