TY - BOOK AU - Morrow,Jeffrey L. TI - Three Skeptics and the Bible: La Peyrère, Hobbes, Spinoza, and the Reception of Modern Biblical Criticism SN - 9781498239165 AV - BS476.M598 2016eb U1 - 220.601 PY - 2016/// CY - Eugene PB - Wipf and Stock Publishers KW - La Peyraere, Isaac de KW - Electronic books N2 - Biblical scholars by and large remain unaware of the history of their own discipline. This present volume seeks to remedy that situation by exploring the early history of modern biblical criticism in the seventeenth century prior to the time of the Enlightenment when the birth of modern biblical criticism is usually dated. After surveying the earlier medieval origins of modern biblical criticism, the essays in this book focus on the more skeptical works of Isaac La Peyrere, Thomas Hobbes, and Baruch Spinoza, whose biblical interpretation laid the foundation for what would emerge in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as modern biblical criticism UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4652321 ER -