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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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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Killeen, Kevin, author.
Contributor:
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)
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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