The Apocryphal Apocalypse
Subtitle: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (Oxford-Warburg Studies)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press
Published: November 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9780198175216
Subjects: Books of the New Testament; History of religion; New Testament apocryphal works; World history: c 1500 to c 1750; World history: c 1750 to c 1900; History: World; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Apocrypha; O.T; History; Religion - Biblical Studies; Europe; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - Old Testament; Biblical Studies - Apocrypha; Europe - General; History / Europe / General; Bible; Modern period, 1500-; O.T.; Apocrypha.; Bible.; Esdras, 2nd
Description: This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. The author discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority that developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation.