Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Note to the Reader
Introduction: All other bookes ... are but Notes upon this : The early modern Bible, Kevin Killeen and Helen Smith
Part I: Translations
Part One Introduction
A day after doomsday : Cranmer and the Bible translations of the 1530s, Susan Wabuda
Genevan legacies: The making of the English Geneva Bible, Femke Molekamp
A comely gate to so rich and glorious a citie : The paratextual architecture of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible, Katrin Ettenhuber
The King James Bible and biblical images of desolation, Karen L. Edwards
The Roman inkhorn: Religious resistance to Latinism in Early Modern England, Jamie H. Ferguson
Retranslating the Bible in the English revolution, Nigel Smith
Part II: Scholarship
Part Two Introduction
The Septuagint and the transformation of biblical scholarship in England, from the King James Bible (1611) to the London Polyglot (1657), Nicholas Hardy
The Apocrypha in early modern England, Ariel Hessayon
Isaiah 63 and the literal senses of scripture, Debora Shuger
The sundrie waies of Wisdom : Richard Hooker on the authority of scripture and reason, Torrance Kirby
'The Doors shall fly open': Chronology and biblical interpretation in England, c. 1630-c.1730, Scott Mandelbrote
Early modern geographia sacra in the context of early modern scholarship, Zur Shalev
Milton s corrupt Bible, Neil Forsyth
The commodification of scripture, 1640-1660: Politics, ecclesiology and the cultures of print, Crawford Gribben
Self-defeating scholarship? Antiscripturism and Anglican apologetics from Hooker to the latitudinarians, Nicholas McDowell
Part III: Spreading the Word
Part Three Introduction
The Church of England and the English Bible, 1559-1640, Lori Anne Ferrell
Hearing and reading : Disseminating Bible knowledge and fostering Bible understanding in early modern England, Ian Green
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God : Dissonance and psalmody, Rachel Willie
Ornament and repetition: Biblical interpretation in early modern English preaching, Mary Morrissey
Preaching, reading and publishing the Word in Protestant Scotland, Alasdair Raffe
The Bible in early modern Gaelic Ireland: Tradition, collaboration and alienation, Marc Caball
'Wilt thou not read me, Atheist? : The Bible and conversion, Helen Smith
Part IV: The political Bible
Part Four Introduction
Mover and author: King James VI and I and the political use of the Bible, Jane Rickard
A King Like Other Nations : Political theory and the Hebrew Republic in the Early Modern age, Kim Ian Parker
Digging, levelling and ranting: The Bible and the Civil War sects, Andrew Bradstock
A year in the life of King Saul: 1643, Anne Lake Prescott
That glory may dwell in our land : The Bible, Britannia, and the Glorious Revolution, Emma Major
Part V: The Bible and literature
Part Five Introduction
The King James Bible in its Cultural Moment, Helen Wilcox
The noblest composition in the Universe or fit for the flames? The literary style of the King James Bible, Hannibal Hamlin
Epic, meditation, or sacred history? Women and biblical verse paraphrase in seventeenth-century England, Sarah Ross
Scripture and tragedy in the Reformation, Russ Leo
This verse marks that: George Herbert's The Temple and scripture in context, Alison Knight
Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows : John Bunyan's Joseph, Nancy Rosenfeld
Paradise Lost, the Bible, and biblical epic, Barbara K. Lewalski
Part VI: Reception Histories
Part Six Introduction
Donne's biblical encounters, Emma Rhatigan
Domestic decoration and the Bible in the early modern home, Andrew Morrall
My exquisite copies for action: John Saltmarsh and the Machiavellian Bible, Kevin Killeen
Unbelief and the Bible, Roger Pooley
Inwardness and English Bible translations, Erica Longfellow
Early modern Davids: From sin to critique, Yvonne Sherwood
Chronology
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
