“In an era, when the biblical text had no chapter numbers, versus, quotation marks, or cross references, key phrases were quoted to evoke a familiar passage” (R. Alan Culpepper, Matthew, 398.

Il n’est rien creu si fermement, que ce qu’on sçait le moins. -Michel de Montaigne. I guess the Dunning Kruger Effect was known of even in the Renaissance.

I just read that Nero’s Domus Aurea was in part a public complex. This would put Nero in a further positive light in the people’s estimation.

Here's the cover of the book I mentioned yesterday. richardcunningham.com

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Which do you think had a bigger impact on shaping critical New Testament scholarship for their respective times, the printing press or the enlightenment?