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The Apocryphal Apocalypse

The Reception of the Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

by University Of Amsterdam Alastair Hamilton (professor Of The History Of The Radical Reformation, And Dr C. Louise Thijssen-schoute Professor Of The History Of Ideas, Professor Of The History Of The Radical Reformation, University Of Amsterdam

  • Hardback
  • 408 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14.8 x 21.9 x 3.1 cm

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This is the first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century. Professor Hamilton discusses the concepts of biblical apocrypha and canonicity in connection with the increasingly critical attitude to religious authority which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation. The Book owed its initial success to Hebraists such as Pico della Mirandola and Bibliander. It was used to account for the origins of Jewish Kabbalah and to prophesy political and religious events: the fall of the Ottoman empire, or the destruction of the papacy. Anabaptists, dissident Protestants of various persuasions, Rosicrucians and Paracelsians consulted it not only as a work of prophecy but, it is argued, as an emblem of dissent, rejected by the official Churches. At the same time more sober scholars, both Protestants and Catholics, scrutinized 2 Esdras with greater objectivity, endeavouring to date it correctly and establish its authorship. This study also investigates the interaction between their views and those of the Book's enthusiastic supporters.
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  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    September 1999

  • Weight

    636g

  • Page Count

    408

  • Dimensions

    14.8 x 21.9 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780198175216

  • ISBN-10

    0198175213

  • Eden Code

    1147102

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