Isaac La Peyrère

Pietsch, Andreas

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“….] of the author of each individual book' (TTP 7.5); (9) find out all of the 'particular interests of the author of each individual book' (TTP 7.5); (10) find out who was each biblical book's author (TTP 7.5); (11) learn when and why each author wrote their book (TTP 7.5); (12) investigate who the primary audience was for each book (TTP 7.5); (13) discover in what language the books were originally written (TTP 7.5); (14) find out who received each book after it was written (TTP 7.5); (15) investigate all of the variant readings in the manuscript tradition (TTP 7.5); (16) investigate the decisions which canonized the books (TTP 7.5); (17) be equipped with 'a perfect knowledge of the Hebrew language' (TTP 7.11); etc.…”

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The Acid of History: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Separation of Faith and Reason in Modern Biblical Studies

Morrow

2015

The Heythrop Journal

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Isaac La Peyrère, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza are increasingly identified with the foundation of modern historical biblical criticism in the seventeenth century. Although these figures have late medieval and early modern precursors who aided the development of modern biblical criticism, their work contrasts significantly with prior exegesis, especially regarding the distance they placed between themselves and the biblical texts. They approached the texts of Scripture from a modern position of skepticism much more so than had most of their predecessors (with the exception of Machiavelli). Moreover, many of the exegetical moves these figures made in the middle part and in the second half of the seventeenth century were developed further in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, finally solidifying an exegesis recognizable as the historical criticism of the Bible still found in contemporary university settings.The work of these three was foundational and even indispensible to the Enlightenment project. This is especially the case of Spinoza who created the methodological blueprint later biblical critics would follow. An examination of the social and political background of these three biblical interpreters reveals the ways in which they utilized the then newly developing modern discipline of history as an acid to dissolve traditional theological interpretations of Scripture.They then redeployed what remained of the Bible for their own political projects. These projects were inextricably bound up with the theo-political goals of the newly formed modern European states which had emerged after the violent sixteenth and seventeenth century 'wars of religion.' The foundations these three figures laid would be built upon by Enlightenment exegetes from their academic chairs in eighteenth and nineteenth century German universities. Those who continue to inherit this form of biblical interpretation generally accept the fundamental assumptions of this exegesis without appreciating that these assumptions originate in the political exegesis of the seventeenth century.

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“…His biblical exegesis and its skeptical methodology were aimed at political revolution dependent upon the undermining of traditional Church authority. 16…”

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The Acid of History: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Separation of Faith and Reason in Modern Biblical Studies

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2015

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The Cambridge History of Atheism

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2021

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The two-volume Cambridge History of Atheism offers an authoritative and up to date account of a subject of contemporary interest. Comprised of sixty essays by an international team of scholars, this History is comprehensive in scope. The essays are written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, including religious studies, philosophy, sociology, and classics. Offering a global overview of the subject, from antiquity to the present, the volumes examine the phenomenon of unbelief in the context of Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, and Jewish societies. They explore atheism and the early modern Scientific Revolution, as well as the development of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and its continuing implications. The History also includes general survey essays on the impact of scepticism, agnosticism and atheism, as well as contemporary assessments of thinking. Providing essential information on the nature and history of atheism, The Cambridge History of Atheism will be indispensable for both scholarship and teaching, at all levels.

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The Cambridge History of Atheism

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Isaac La Peyrère

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The Acid of History: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Separation of Faith and Reason in Modern Biblical Studies

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