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2012-08-31
Conference Biblical Criticism and Scriptural Authority in the Dutch Golden Age
Dates: Thursday August 30th - Saturday September 1st, 2012
Venue: Kanunnikenzaal, Academy Building, Utrecht University, Domplein 29, 3512 JE, Utrecht
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Scholars and theologians of the seventeenth century approached the bible with the tools developed by previous generations of Renaissance humanists like Erasmus and Scaliger: textual criticism, linguistic understanding, rhetorical analysis, and historical contextualisation. This expertise promised to resolve a multitude of problems concerning the literal text of the Bible. But in fact philology only increased the number of problems, to the point of jeopardizing the very authority of the Bible itself. Near the end of the seventeenth century scholars who were discouraged by radical criticism and exuberant erudition, redefined textual criticism and historia sacra was transformed into critica sacra.
In this conference, we chart the development and impact of biblical criticism. As we understand it, philology not only comprises linguistics, textual criticism, history of transmission, but also antiquarianism, legal history, chronology and comparative religious history. Questions which we will address include: When did the growing awareness of the instability of the biblical text conflict with theological exegesis? How did philologists and theologians clash? Were their discourses compatible? How did discussions between academic professors spill over into the public sphere? In what ways did radical thinkers profit from these frictions?
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