8Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 285.
9J. Samuel Preus, Spinoza and the Irrelevance of Biblical Authority (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 4-6.
10Roy A. Harrisville & Walter Sundberg, The Bible in Modern Culture: Theology and Historical - Critical Method from Spinoza to Kasemann (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1995), p. 35.