Antonella Del Prete is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the University of Tuscia. She is the author of Jean Terrasson, Traité de l’infini créé (Paris: 2007) and Chemins du cartésianisme (Paris: 2017), and the co-author of Révolutions scientifiques et libertinage (Turnhout: 2000).Anna Lisa Schino is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. Her research interests focus on «libertinage érudit», political paradigms and natural law theories in the 17th century. She is the author of Batailles libertines (Paris: 2020).Pina Totaro is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI-CNR). She is the author of Quatre enquêtes sur Spinoza (Paris: 2021) and “Instrumenta mentis”. Contributi al lessico filosofico di Spinoza (Florence: 2009), and the co-author of Spinoza, philosophe grammairien. Le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae (Paris: 2019) and Il sogno tra tarda antichità e età moderna (Rome: 2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaropart 1: Enquiring on Moses1 Images of Moses in the RenaissanceSimonetta Bassi2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the PentateuchPina Totaropart 2: Prophet’s Witnessing3 Tommaso Campanella on the BibleOntology, Epistemology and Political PhilosophyGuido Giglioni4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy ScripturesAnna Lisa Schino5 Hermeneutics and ConflictSpinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical InterpretationDiego Donnapart 3: Rational Theology and Natural Religion6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry MoreSarah Hutton7 “Between Doubt and Knowledge”John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of LockeLuisa Simonutti8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre BayleStefano Brogipart 4: The Moral Message of the Bible9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal’s Pensées L974/S771Simone D’Agostino10 An Association without Power?Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian CommunitiesFrancesco Toto11 “The Law Inscribed in the Mind”On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza’s Theological-Political TreatiseGiovanni Licatapart 5: The Accommodation Doctrine12 FirmamentumLa querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à KeplerÉdouard Mehl13 L’exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianismeClaudio Buccolini14 “Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher”Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the BibleAntonella Del Prete15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of ScriptureMatteo Favaretti Camposampiero16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton’s Principia mathematicaFranco GiudiceIndex

Antonella Del Prete is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the University of Tuscia. She is the author of Jean Terrasson, Traité de l’infini créé (Paris: 2007) and Chemins du cartésianisme (Paris: 2017), and the co-author of Révolutions scientifiques et libertinage (Turnhout: 2000).Anna Lisa Schino is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. Her research interests focus on «libertinage érudit», political paradigms and natural law theories in the 17th century. She is the author of Batailles libertines (Paris: 2020).Pina Totaro is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI-CNR). She is the author of Quatre enquêtes sur Spinoza (Paris: 2021) and “Instrumenta mentis”. Contributi al lessico filosofico di Spinoza (Florence: 2009), and the co-author of Spinoza, philosophe grammairien. Le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae (Paris: 2019) and Il sogno tra tarda antichità e età moderna (Rome: 2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaropart 1: Enquiring on Moses1 Images of Moses in the RenaissanceSimonetta Bassi2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the PentateuchPina Totaropart 2: Prophet’s Witnessing3 Tommaso Campanella on the BibleOntology, Epistemology and Political PhilosophyGuido Giglioni4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy ScripturesAnna Lisa Schino5 Hermeneutics and ConflictSpinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical InterpretationDiego Donnapart 3: Rational Theology and Natural Religion6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry MoreSarah Hutton7 “Between Doubt and Knowledge”John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of LockeLuisa Simonutti8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre BayleStefano Brogipart 4: The Moral Message of the Bible9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal’s Pensées L974/S771Simone D’Agostino10 An Association without Power?Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian CommunitiesFrancesco Toto11 “The Law Inscribed in the Mind”On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza’s Theological-Political TreatiseGiovanni Licatapart 5: The Accommodation Doctrine12 FirmamentumLa querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à KeplerÉdouard Mehl13 L’exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianismeClaudio Buccolini14 “Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher”Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the BibleAntonella Del Prete15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of ScriptureMatteo Favaretti Camposampiero16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton’s Principia mathematicaFranco GiudiceIndex

Antonella Del Prete is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the University of Tuscia. She is the author of Jean Terrasson, Traité de l’infini créé (Paris: 2007) and Chemins du cartésianisme (Paris: 2017), and the co-author of Révolutions scientifiques et libertinage (Turnhout: 2000).Anna Lisa Schino is Associate Professor in History of Philosophy at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome. Her research interests focus on «libertinage érudit», political paradigms and natural law theories in the 17th century. She is the author of Batailles libertines (Paris: 2020).Pina Totaro is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the European Intellectual Lexicon and History of Ideas (ILIESI-CNR). She is the author of Quatre enquêtes sur Spinoza (Paris: 2021) and “Instrumenta mentis”. Contributi al lessico filosofico di Spinoza (Florence: 2009), and the co-author of Spinoza, philosophe grammairien. Le Compendium grammatices linguae hebraeae (Paris: 2019) and Il sogno tra tarda antichità e età moderna (Rome: 2020).

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionAntonella Del Prete, Anna Lisa Schino and Pina Totaropart 1: Enquiring on Moses1 Images of Moses in the RenaissanceSimonetta Bassi2 More on Spinoza and the Authorship of the PentateuchPina Totaropart 2: Prophet’s Witnessing3 Tommaso Campanella on the BibleOntology, Epistemology and Political PhilosophyGuido Giglioni4 Prophecy and the Prophetic Kingdom of God in the Hobbesian Analysis of the Holy ScripturesAnna Lisa Schino5 Hermeneutics and ConflictSpinoza and the Downfall of Exegetical InterpretationDiego Donnapart 3: Rational Theology and Natural Religion6 The Bible in the Philosophy of Anne Conway and Henry MoreSarah Hutton7 “Between Doubt and Knowledge”John Biddle and the English Unitarians in the Time of LockeLuisa Simonutti8 Immorality and Intolerance in the Bible?Natural Ethicality and the Interpretation of Scripture in the Writings of Pierre BayleStefano Brogipart 4: The Moral Message of the Bible9 Peace and Truth in Polemic: Pascal’s Pensées L974/S771Simone D’Agostino10 An Association without Power?Gift, Recognition, and Democracy in the Hobbesian Conception of Early Christian CommunitiesFrancesco Toto11 “The Law Inscribed in the Mind”On the Meaning of a Biblical Image in Spinoza’s Theological-Political TreatiseGiovanni Licatapart 5: The Accommodation Doctrine12 FirmamentumLa querelle théologico-philologique du ciel étoilé, de Copernic à KeplerÉdouard Mehl13 L’exégèse du dernier Mersenne et le cartésianismeClaudio Buccolini14 “Accommoder la Théologie à ma façon de philosopher”Descartes and Dutch Cartesians Interpreting the BibleAntonella Del Prete15 Wolff, Spinoza, and the Interpretation of ScriptureMatteo Favaretti Camposampiero16 Natural Philosophy and Scripture in Isaac Newton’s Principia mathematicaFranco GiudiceIndex