The author of such comedies as The Misogynist and Minna von Barnhelm, his most famous play, set during the reign of Saladin, includes the famous "parable of the three rings," a declaration of religious tolerance as explained by a wealthy Jewish merchant.  
This German author argued that man had outgrown need for the Bible in the 1788 deist manifesto The Education of The Human Race.  The author of such comedies as The Misogynist and Minna von Barnhelm, his most famous play, set during the reign of Saladin, includes the famous "parable of the three rings," a declaration of religious tolerance as explained by a wealthy Jewish merchant.  FTP, name the German author of the critical work Laokoon and the play Nathan the Wise.
This German author argued that man had outgrown need for the Bible in the 1788 deist manifesto The Education of The Human Race.  
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing