Political Bible in Early Modern England

List of contents

1. Introduction: the political bible; 2. Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament; 3. The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years War; 4. Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor; 5. Constitution and resistance: the language of Civil War political thought; 6. Dividing the kingdom: Rehoboam and Jeroboam; 7. Hanging up kings: regicide and political memory; 8. Preaching on the ramparts: Hezekiah at war; 9. How Jezebel became sexy: Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics; 10. Conclusion; Appendix. Chronology of Biblical kings; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Kevin Killeen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York. He is the author of Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (2009), which won the Council for College and University English Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c.1530–1700 (with Helen Smith and Rachel Judith Willie, 2015) and Thomas Browne: Oxford 21st Century Authors (2014), and has won both the Council of University Deans Prize and the Renaissance Studies essay prize.

Summary

This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how the religious text provided a key language of political debate and played a critical role in shaping early modern political thinking.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Killeen, Kevin (University of York) Killeen, Killeen Kevin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2020
• EAN: 9781107518421
• ISBN: 978-1-107-51842-1
• No. of pages: 322
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599