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It takes the average reader 7 hours and 15 minutes to read Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age by Henk Nellen

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Description

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age explores the hypothesis that in the long seventeenth century humanist-inspired biblical criticism contributed significantly to the decline of ecclesiastical truth claims. Historiography pictures this era as one in which the dominant position of religion and church began to show signs of erosion under the influence of vehement debates on the sacrosanct status of the Bible. Until quite recently, this gradual but decisive shift has been attributed to the rise of the sciences, in particular astronomy and physics. This authoritative volume looks at biblical criticism as an innovative force and as the outcome of developments in philology that had started much earlier than scientific experimentalism or the New Philosophy. Scholars began to situate the Bible in its historical context. The contributors show that even in the hands of pious, orthodox scholars philological research not only failed to solve all the textual problems that had surfaced, but even brought to light countless new incongruities. This supplied those who sought to play down the authority of the Bible with ammunition. The conviction that God's Word had been preserved as a pure and sacred source gave way to an awareness of a complicated transmission in a plurality of divergent, ambiguous, historically determined, and heavily corrupted texts. This shift took place primarily in the Dutch Protestant world of the seventeenth century.

How long is Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age?

Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age by Henk Nellen is 432 pages long, and a total of 108,864 words.

This makes it 146% the length of the average book. It also has 133% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 54 minutes to read Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age aloud.

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Scriptural Authority and Biblical Criticism in the Dutch Golden Age is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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