The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (1999 Hamilton), book

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The Apocryphal Apocalypse: The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment (1999) is a book by Alastair Hamilton.

Abstract

"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."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Oxford [England]: Clarendon, 1999.

Contents

  • From the church fathers to the Renaissance
  • Prophecy and Kabbalism
  • Official attitudes
  • Catholic responses
  • The radical solution: the Anabaptists
  • A broad tradition of dissent
  • Rosicrucians, new prophets and the Thirty Years War
  • Chiliastic mysticism and radical pietism
  • Of monsters, Indians and Jews
  • Controversialists and scholars
  • England and the Arabic version
  • The aftermath
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix. 2 Esdras (from the Authorized Version of the Bible).

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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