Research Catalog

Title

The political Bible in early modern England / Kevin Killeen (University of York).

Author

Killeen, Kevin

Publication

• Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Description

xi, 310 pages; 24 cm

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.

Series Statement

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Uniform Title

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Subjects

• England > Church history > 17th century
• Renaissance > England
• Bible and politics > England > History > 17th century
• Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714
• Monarchy > Religious aspects > History > 17th century
• Bible > Old Testament > Hermeneutics
• Politics in the Bible > History > 17th century
• Bible > Biography
• Kings and rulers > Religious aspects > History > 17th century
• Bible > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 17-2502

ISBN

• 9781107107977
• 1107107970

LCCN

2016015461

OCLC

949760224

Author

Killeen, Kevin, author.

Title

The political Bible in early modern England / Kevin Killeen (University of York).

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 17-2502