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PartIV: Prophecy, Knowledge and Study of Religion

✍ Scribed by J.Samuel Preus

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1998
Tongue
English
Weight
117 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0048-721X

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✦ Synopsis

The historical connection between the study of the Bible and the study of religion is examined through Spinoza's application of his anthropomorphic theory of religion to his analysis of biblical prophecy. Drawing on current epistemological discussion, Spinoza shows in the Ethics how the pervasive anthropomorphism of popular explanations of the world, rooted in imagination, develops into religious systems. This theory informs Spinoza's analysis of biblical prophecy in his Treatise, in which he displaces the philosophical hermeneutic of Maimonides in favor of an historical-critical analysis. The result is a consistency of method-historical, critical, comparativebetween his study of the Bible and the study of religion generally.

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