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.