Apocryphal Apocalypse - Hamilton, Alastair (Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam a and Dr C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas, Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation, University of Amsterdam a and Dr C.

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.