The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700

• Acknowledgements


• List of Illustrations


• Note to the Reader


• Introduction: 'All other bookes ... are but Notes upon this': The Early Modern Bible


• Part I: Translations


• Part One Introduction


• 1: Susan Wabuda: 'A day after doomsday': Cranmer and the Bible Translations of the 1530s


• 2: Femke Molekamp: Genevan Legacies: The Making of the English Geneva Bible


• 3: Katrin Ettenhuber: 'A comely gate to so rich and glorious a citie': The Paratextual Architecture of the Rheims New Testament and the King James Bible


• 4: Karen L. Edwards: The King James Bible and Biblical Images of Desolation


• 5: Jamie H. Ferguson: The Roman Inkhorn: Religious Resistance to Latinism in Early Modern England


• 6: Nigel Smith: Retranslating the Bible in the English Revolution


• Part II: Scholarship


• Part Two Introduction


• 7: Nicholas Hardy: The Septuagint and the Transformation of Biblical Scholarship in England, from the King James Bible (1611) to the London Polyglot (1657)


• 8: Ariel Hessayon: The Apocrypha in Early Modern England


• 9: Debora Shuger: Isaiah 63 and the Literal Senses of Scripture


• 10: Torrance Kirby: The 'sundrie waies of Wisdom': Richard Hooker on the Authority of Scripture and Reason


• 11: Scott Mandelbrote: 'The doors shall fly open': Chronology and Biblical Interpretation in England, c. 1630-c.1730


• 12: Zur Shalev: Early Modern geographia sacra in the Context of Early Modern Scholarship


• 13: Neil Forsyth: Milton's Corrupt Bible


• 14: Crawford Gribben: The Commodification of Scripture, 1640-1660: Politics, Ecclesiology, and the Cultures of Print


• 15: Nicholas McDowell: Self-Defeating Scholarship? Antiscripturism and Anglican Apologetics from Hooker to the Latitudinarians

Kevin Killeen in Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies at the University of York. He has edited Sir Thomas Browne: 21st Century Authors (OUP, 2014), and is author of The Political Bible in Early Modern England (CUP, 2016) Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (Ashgate, 2009; winner of the CCUE Book Prize, 2010) and co-editor, with Peter Forshaw, of Biblical Exegesis and the Emergence of Science in the Early Modern Era (Palgrave, 2007). He is currently editing two volumes for The Oxford Works of Sir Thomas Browne.

Helen Smith is Reader in Renaissance Literature at the University of York. She is co-editor of Conversions: Gender and Religious Change in Early Modern Europe (Manchester University Press, 2017) with Simon Ditchfiled, and author of Grossly Material Things: Women and Book Production in Early Modern England (OUP, 2012; winner of the SHARP DeLong Book History Prize, 2013, and the Roland H. Bainton Literature Prize, 2013), and co-editor, with Louise Wilson, of Renaissance Paratexts (CUP, 2011). Helen is PI on the AHRC research network, 'Imagining Jerusalem, c. 1099 to the Present Day'. She is currently completing a monograph on early modern ideas of matter and their material expressions.

Rachel Willie is Lecturer in English at Liverpool John Moores University. She is author of Staging the Revolution: Drama, Reinvention and History, 1647-1672 (Manchester University Press, 2015). She has published on Milton, Charles I, and martyrological discourse, and print and publishing in the nascent public sphere.

This volume proves once again that much indeed remains to be explored and that reception history is king. The volume, with impressively little overlap with other English language volumes on the Bible in the period, presents a collection of useful and well-researched essays on the development of the Bible in England, with some attention to Scotland and Ireland... [T]his volume contains some of the best examples of the work that global contemporary literary critics, biblical scholars, and historians have produced. Ellie Gebarowski-Shafer, Religious Studies Review