The Political Bible in Early Modern England

ISBN-13: 9781107518421 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 322 str.

Kevin Killeen

Opis

This book explores the Bible as a political document in seventeenth-century England, revealing how it provided a key language of political debate.

Recenzje

'An important supplement, and corrective, to recent scholarship on the Classical-republican foundations of early modern political thought. Killeen's magisterial study of how seventeenth-century Englishmen read their Old Testament, with its often murderous and often murdered kings, both illuminates and defamiliarizes the era's discourses of liberty and oppression, property and prerogative, divine right and prophetic defiance.' Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles

Spis treści

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.