s to believe that he or she is of a like mind in religious matters? Or should the historian admit to purely secular motives?
Winks illustrates this dilemma with some famous examples in literary scholarship. The literary scholar spends much of his time hunting for manuscripts which have remained unpublished for many years and which promise to shed new light on the published works of the authors and on the authors themselves. The first stop is the collection of an author's manuscripts, usually located in a specific library or in the family home. The scholar must then search every conceivable source f
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