The Apocryphal Apocalypse

The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

Inbunden, Engelska, 1999

AvAlastair Hamilton,University of Leiden) Hamilton, Alastair (Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam; and Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas, Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam; and Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas,HAMILTON,Hamilton

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This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation. The Book owed its initial success to Hebraists such as Pico della Mirandola and Bibliander. It was used to account for the origins of Jewish Kabbalah and to prophesy political and religious events: the fall of the Ottoman empire, or the destruction of the papacy. Anabaptists, dissident Protestants of various persuasions, Rosicrucians and Paracelsians consulted it not only as a work of prophecy but, it is argued, as an emblem of dissent, rejected by the official Churches. At the same time more sober scholars, both Protestants and Catholics, scrutinized 2 Esdras with greater objectivity, endeavouring to date it correctly and establish its authorship. This study also investigates the interaction between their views and those of the Book's enthusiastic supporters.

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Utgivningsdatum1999-09-16
Mått146 x 223 x 27 mm
Vikt637 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford-Warburg Studies
Antal sidor408
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198175216

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1. From the Church Fathers to the Renaissance ; 2. Prophecy and Kabbalism ; 3. Official Attitudes ; 4. Catholic Responses ; 5. The Radical Solution: The Anabaptists ; 6. A Broad Tradition of Dissent ; 7. Rosicrucians, New Prophets and the Thirty Years War ; 8. Radical Pietism and Eirenic Mysticism ; 9. Of Monsters, Indians and Jews ; 10. Controversialists and Scholars ; 11. England and the Arabic Version ; 12. The Aftermath ; Conclusion ; Appendix: 2 Esdras ; Bibliography ; Index of Biblical Passages ; General index

This is a fascinating account of the reception history of Second Esdras that superbly highlights the complex relationship between texts and their interpreters ... Hamilton's study will be welcomed by all kinds of specialists, not least because of his impressive command of the relevant sources and their historical settings. His lucid summaries are always accompanied by pertinent quotations in their original languages - no mean feat, given the range of languages involved!

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