The Books of Nature and Scripture: Recent Essays on Natural Philosophy, Theology and Biblical Criticism in the Netherlands of Spinoza's Time and the British Isles of Newton's Time - Softcover

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1. Introduction; R.H. Popkin. 2. Spinoza and Bible Scholarship; R.H. Popkin. 3. Comment on R. Popkin's Paper; A. Funkenstein. 4. Irrationality with or without Reason: the Analysis of Chapter XV of the Tractatus Theologico-Politicus ; J. Lagrée. 5. More, Newton and the Language of Biblical Prophecy; S. Hutton. 6. `Making a Shew': Apocalyptic Hermeneutics and the Sociology of Christian Idolatry in the work of Isaac Newton and Henry More; R. Iliffe. 7. Newton on Kabbalah; M. Goldish. 8. One Prophet Interprets Another: Sir Isaac Newton and Daniel; M.Z. Kochavi. 9. `Pray do not Ascribe that Notion to me: God and Newton's Gravity; J. Henry. 10. Isaac Newton and Thomas Burnet: Biblical Criticism and the Crisis of late Seventeenth Century England; S. Mandelbrote. 11. The God of Abraham and Isaac (Newton); J.E. Force. 12. `Moses's Principia: Hutchinsonianism and Newton's Critics; D.S. Katz. Index.

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