BIBLE CRITICISM GOES BACK A LONG WAY

I've noted the work of Richard Elliot Friedman before and he noted that there was an extensive history of Biblical textual criticism.   I found another example in Steven Nadler's biography of Spinoza, p. 277:

In 1660, Samuel Fisher, the Quaker leader in Amsterdam, published The Rustic's Alarm to the Rabbies. Scripture, Fisher insisted, is a historical document, a text written by human beings, and therefore should not be confused with the Word of God, which is ahistorical and eternal. Moses' contribution was simply to begin the process of writing down God's message. Fisher cast doubt on the authenticity of what now passes for Holy Scripture. The books that we have are, in fact, copies of copies of copies, and so on, all of which passed through numerous hands. During the transmission process, alterations and omissions must have crept into the texts, which now are fairly corrupt.