Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Note to the Reader
Kevin Killeen and Helen Smith: Introduction: 'All other bookes ... are but Notes upon this': The Early Modern Bible
Part I: Translations
Part One Introduction
1 Susan Wabuda: 'A day after doomsday': Cranmer and the Bible Translations of the 1530s
2 Femke Molekamp: Genevan Legacies: The Making of the English Geneva Bible
3 Katrin Ettenhuber: 'A comely gate to so rich and glorious a citie': The Paratextual Architecture of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible
4 Karen L. Edwards: The King James Bible and Biblical Images of Desolation
5 Jamie H. Ferguson: The Roman Inkhorn: Religious Resistance to Latinism in Early Modern England
6 Nigel Smith: Retranslating the Bible in the English Revolution
Part II: Scholarship
Part Two Introduction
7 Nicholas Hardy: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Biblical Scholarship in England, from the King James Bible (1611) to the London Polyglot (1657)
8 Ariel Hessayon: The Apocrypha in Early Modern England
9 Debora Shuger: Isaiah 63 and the Literal Senses of Scripture
10 Torrance Kirby: The 'sundrie waies of Wisdom': Richard Hooker on the Authority of Scripture and Reason
11 Scott Mandelbrote: 'The doors shall fly open': Chronology and Biblical Interpretation in England, c. 1630-c.1730
12 Zur Shalev: Early Modern geographia sacra in the Context of Early Modern Scholarship
13 Neil Forsyth: Milton's Corrupt Bible
14 Crawford Gribben: The Commodification of Scripture, 1640-1660: Politics, Ecclesiology, and the Cultures of Print
15 Nicholas McDowell: Self-Defeating Scholarship? Antiscripturism and Anglican Apologetics from Hooker to the Latitudinarians
Part III: Spreading the Word
Part Three Introduction
16 Lori Anne Ferrell: The Church of England and the English Bible, 1559-1640
17 Ian Green: 'Hearing' and 'Reading': Disseminating Bible Knowledge and Fostering Bible Understanding in Early Modern England
18 Rachel Willie: 'All Scripture is given by inspiration of God': Dissonance and Psalmody
19 Mary Morrissey: Ornament and Repetition: Biblical Interpretation in Early Modern English Preaching
20 Alasdair Raffe: Preaching, Reading, and Publishing the Word in Protestant Scotland
21 Marc Caball: The Bible in Early Modern Gaelic Ireland: Tradition, Collaboration, and Alienation
22 Helen Smith: 'Wilt thou not read me, Atheist?': The Bible and Conversion
Part IV: The Political Bible
Part Four Introduction
23 Jane Rickard: Mover and Author: King James VI and I and the Political Use of the Bible
24 Kim Ian Parker: 'A king like other nations': Political Theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern Age
25 Andrew Bradstock: Digging, Levelling, and Ranting: The Bible and the Civil War Sects
26 Anne Lake Prescott: A Year in the Life of King Saul: 1643
27 Emma Major: 'That glory may dwell in our land': The Bible, Britannia, and the Glorious Revolution
Part V: The Bible and Literature
Part Five Introduction
28 Helen Wilcox: The King James Bible in its Cultural Moment
29 Hannibal Hamlin: The Noblest Composition in the Universe or Fit for the Flames? The Literary Style of the King James Bible
30 Sarah C. E. Ross: Epic, Meditation, or Sacred History? Women and Biblical Verse Paraphrase in Seventeenth-Century England
31 Russ Leo: Scripture and Tragedy in the Reformation
32 Alison Knight: 'This verse marks that': George Herbert's The Temple and Scripture in Context
33 Nancy Rosenfeld: 'Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows': John Bunyan's Joseph
34 Barbara K. Lewalski: Paradise Lost, the Bible, and Biblical Epic
Part VI: Reception Histories
Part Six Introduction
35 Emma Rhatigan: Donne's Biblical Encounters
36 Andrew Morrall: Domestic Decoration and the Bible in the Early Modern Home
37 Kevin Killeen: 'My exquisite copies for action': John Saltmarsh and the Machiavellian Bible
38 Roger Pooley: Unbelief and the Bible
39 Erica Longfellow: Inwardness and English Bible Translations
40 Yvonne Sherwood: Early Modern Davids: From Sin to Critique
Chronology
Bibliography
Index