'Nancy Levene … has written an energetic and inspiring book on Spinoza. Based on a thorough reading of Spinoza's Theologico-Political Treatise and his other works, and in constant conversation with previous interpretations, Levene retrieves a constructive agenda from Spinoza's writing about Biblical revelation that makes it once mire possible to fathom why some earlier readers, such as the Romantic poet Novalis, considered Spinoza a 'God intoxicated' man rather than an athiest.' Scottish Journal of Theology
Introduction; 1. Vera Religio; 2. Spinoza's Bible: concerning how it is that 'Scripture, insofar as it contains the word of God, has come down to us uncorrupted'; 3. Politics, law, and the multitude; 4. Reason, revelation, and the case of the Hebrews; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
