Criticism and Confession: The Bible in the Seventeenth Century Republic of Letters (Oxford-Warburg Studies)

Synopsis

Introduction -- Prelude: The Discourse Of Critica In The Late Renaissance -- Part I. Debating Sacred History In England And The Continent. The 'theological Vortex'? Isaac Casaubon In England, 1610-1614 -- Philology Divided: The Controversy Over John Selden's Historie Of Tithes (1618) -- Conclusion: Rethinking Historicism -- Part Ii. Commentary On The New Testament. New Testament Scholarship After Scaliger -- Hugo Grotius: 'historical Criticism' In Its Generic And Controversial Contexts -- Conclusion: The Myth Of 'critical Exegesis' -- Part Iii. Criticizing The Old Testament. Anti-protestant Controversy And The 'ecclesiastical' Versions Of The Old Testmanet: The Case Of Jean Morin -- Protestants And The Septuagint: The Failed Edition Of Patrick Young -- Critical Judgement And Theological Exegesis: The Case Of Louis Cappel -- Cappel's Critica Sacra In The Confessional Republic Of Letters -- The London Polyglot Bible: Synthesis, Retrospective, Or Another Controversial Intervention? -- Conclusion: From Humanistic Exegesis To Sacred Criticism -- Coda: From Critica Sacra To Enlightened Critique? Nicholas Hardy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.