Physica sacra : Wunder, Naturwissenschaft und historischer Schriftsinn zwischen Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit / von Bernd Roling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roling, Bernd, 1972-

Series:

Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 45.

Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 45

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Miracles--Biblical teaching.

Miracles.

Bible and science.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (495 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

Was it a whale or a shark that devoured Jonah? And how were the walls of Jericho brought down? In his wide-ranging study, Physica Sacra , Bernd Roling shows that the natural sciences and biblical exegesis have not always stood in stark opposition to one another. From the high Middle Ages, Bible commentators such as Albertus Magnus and Alonso Tostado made extensive use of the knowledge available in their times about zoology, medicine and astronomy to explain the wonders of revelation and to defend their historical basis. Even with the advent of modern Biblical criticism and in the age of Enlightenment, as is shown here in detail, their arguments were valid enough to refute critics like Spinoza, Isaac de la Peyrère and Voltaire.

Contents:

Front Matter

Einleitung

Die Eselin Bileams: Erkenntnistheorie und Psychologie

Das Buch Joshua: Physik und Astronomie

Die Verwandlung des Nebucadnezar: Medizin

Der Fisch des Jona: Zoologie

Schluss: Die Persistenz des historischen Schriftsinns

Literatur

Indexes.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-25807-8

OCLC:

860626238

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004258075 DOI