The Oxford handbook of the Bible in early modern England, c. 1530-1700 / edited by Kevin Killeen, Helen Smith, and Rachel Willie.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Killeen, Kevin, editor.
• Smith, Helen, 1977- editor.
• Willie, Rachel, editor.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
• Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

• Oxford handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Bible.
• Religion.
• History.
• Bible--English--History--16th century.
• Bible--English--History--17th century.
• England--Religion--16th century.
• England--Religion--17th century.
• England.
• Seventeenth century.
• Sixteenth century.

Genre:

• History.

Physical Description:

xx, 783 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Bible in early modern England, c. 1530-1700

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, from the 'boy that driveth the plough', famously invoked by Tyndale, to women across the social scale. It circulated in texts ranging from elaborate folios to cheap catechisms; and it was mediated in numerous forms, as pictures, songs, and embroideries; and as proverbs, commonplaces, and quotations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of fields, 'The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, 1530-1700' explores how the scriptures served as a generative motor for ideas, and a resource for creative and political thought, as well as for domestic and devotional life. Sections tackle the knotty issues of translation, the rich range of early modern biblical scholarship, Bible dissemination and circulation, the changing political uses of the Bible, literary appropriations and responses, and the reception of the text across a range of contexts and media. Where existing scholarship focuses, typically, on Tyndale and the King James Bible of 1611, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in England, 1530-1700 goes further, tracing the vibrant and shifting landscape of biblical culture in the two centuries following the Reformation."--Book jacket.

Contents:

• Introduction : 'All other bookes ... are but notes upon this' : the early modern Bible / Kevin Killeen and Helen Smith
• '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 architexture 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 C. E. 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
• 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 crique / Yvonne Sherwood

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-760) and index.
• Series title from book jacket.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

• 9780199686971
• 0199686971

OCLC:

903804583

Publisher Number:

9780199686971

Online:

The Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund Home Page