Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age

Dirk van Miert is Assistant Professor of Early Modern Cultural History at the University of Utrecht.Henk Nellen is 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.Piet Steenbakkers is 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 Universiteit, Rotterdam.Jetze Touber is Lecturer in the Department of Languages, Literature, and Communication at the University of Utrecht.

• PART I: FAMOUS CASES OF PIA FRAUS; PART II: THE BOUNDARIES OF EARLY MODERN ORTHODOXY CHALLENGED; PART III: OLD TESTAMENT JUDAISM; PART IV: BENEDICTUS DE SPINOZA: ANCESTRY AND HERITAGE; PART V: INNOVATIVE EXEGESIS BY REMONSTRANT, MENNONITE, AND OTHER LIBERAL THINKERS; PART VI: ORTHODOX REFORMED EXEGETES ENTER THE FRAY; PART VII: BIBLICAL CRITICISM IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

At their strongest, the chapters in this volume begin to put forward intriguing and significant new interpretations of seventeenth-century biblical scholarship. ...they reveal a snapshot of a subject in rapid transition, one increasingly focused on new--and more interesting-- questions, which have the promise to alter our understanding of early modern biblical scholarship.