books.google.com.eg - Studies tracing the rise of historical criticism of the Bible often consider Benedictde Spinoza (1632-1677) the progenitor of this approach, presenting him as a qunitessentially modern, rationalaist thinker who developed a philological-historical method to interpert biblical texts. According to this...http://books.google.com.eg/books/about/Spinoza_and_the_Rise_of_Historical_Criti.html?id=9U-UVED7YrcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareSpinoza and the Rise of Historical Criticism of the Bible
