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The political Bible in early modern England / Kevin Killeen (University of York).
Van Pelt Library BS680.P45 K45 2017
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) BS680.P45 K45 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Killeen, Kevin, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in early modern British history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Bible. Old Testament--Hermeneutics.
- Bible--Biography.
- Politics in the Bible.
- History.
- Monarchy.
- Kings and rulers--Religious aspects.
- Bible and politics.
- Hermeneutics.
- England.
- Bible and politics--England--History--17th century.
- Kings and rulers--Religious aspects--History--17th century.
- Kings and rulers.
- Monarchy--Religious aspects--History--17th century.
- Politics in the Bible--History--17th century.
- Renaissance--England.
- Renaissance.
- England--Church history--17th century.
- Church history.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1603-1714.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 310 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Looks at the political uses of the biblical kings and the Old Testament in the Renaissance ... the work explores the scriptural ambivalence to and suspicion of monarchy and constitutes a reception history of the biblical texts on kingship across the seventeenth century; the study also provides an account of the biblical idiom of politics in the era"--From author's University of York web page.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The political Bible
- Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament
- The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years War
- Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor
- Constitution and resistance : the language of civil war political thought
- Dividing the kingdom : Rehoboam and Jeroboam
- Hanging up kings : regicide and political memory
- Preaching on the ramparts : Hezekiah at war
- How Jezebel became sexy : Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Chronology of Biblical kings.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781107107977
- 1107107970
- OCLC:
- 949760224
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