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The political Bible in early modern England
- 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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Details
- 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 historyCambridge studies in early modern British history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-2502