I. Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's Word Questioned [Book Review]. II. Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters [Book Review]

Two outstanding new volumes on the 17th-century criticism of the bible apply a vital and current question: did scholarly criticism emerge in spite of theology or because of it? ; © 2018 University of Chicago Press. Book Reviews of: Dirk van Miert, Henk Nellen, Piet Steenbakkers, and Jetze Touber, eds., Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age: God's Word Questioned. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 480. Nicholas Hardy, Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Republic of Letters. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. Pp. 480. ; Publi... Mehr ...