Physica sacra
Subtitle: Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit
By: von Bernd Roling
Series: Mittellateinische Sudien und Texte -- volume 45
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: ger
Number of pages: 485
ISBN-13: 9789004258044; 9789004258075
Subjects: Miracles; Biblical teaching; Bible and science; Criticism, interpretation; History; Bible
Description: Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, 'Physica Sacra', Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Die Eselin Bileams : Erkenntnistheorie und Psychologie; title: Das Buch Joshua : Physik und Astronomie; title: Die Verwandelung des Nebucadnezar : Medizin; title: Der Fisch des Jona : Zoologie; title: Die Persistenz des historischen Schriftsinns.