PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - , TI - Cross-Examining Scripture DP - 2013 Aug 01 TA - Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric PG - 261--295 VI - 31 IP - 3 4099 - http://rh.ucpress.edu/content/31/3/261.short 4100 - http://rh.ucpress.edu/content/31/3/261.full AB - This essay explores how rules for handling testimonial evidence were developed in the contexts of the British jurisprudence, epistemology and theological debate over the course of the eighteenth century, and shows how Thomas Paine appropriated these rules in The Age of Reason, his deistic manifesto.