The Apocryphal Apocalypse - Alastair (Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation Hamilton - Bog

The first study of the reception of the apocryphal Second Book of Esdras (4 Ezra) 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 which developed with the humanists and intensified with the Reformation.