The Dark Bible demonstrates that early modern writers and critics engaged extensively with the Bible's difficulties, attempting to circumvent and repair problematic texts, and otherwise reconcile the darkness of the Bible with theories of the Bible's perfection and clarity.
Alison Knight received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2012. She has held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and a European Research Council Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. In 2020, she joined the English and History departments at Royal Holloway, University of London, as Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies. She has published articles in Studies in Philology, The John Donne Journal, and several prominent edited volumes. She received the John Donne Society's 2018 Distinguished Publication Award.