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THE POLITICAL BIBLE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND This illuminating new study considers the Bible as a political docu- mentinseventeenth-centuryEngland,revealinghowthereligioustext providedakeylanguageofpoliticaldebateandplayedacriticalrolein shaping early modern political thinking. Kevin Killeen demonstrates how biblical kings were as important in the era’s political thought as any classical model. The book mines the rich and neglected resources of early modern quasi-scriptural writings - treatise, sermon, commentary, annotation, poetry and political tract - to show how deeply embedded this political vocabulary remained, across the century,fromtoptobottomandacrossallreligiouspositions.Itshows how constitutional thought, inthismosttumultuousera ofcivilwar, regicideandrepublic,wasforgedontheBible,andhowwritersranging from King James, Joseph Hall or John Milton to Robert Filmer and Thomas Hobbes can be better understood in the context of such vigorousbiblicaldiscourse. kevin killeen isa Senior Lecturer at theUniversity ofYork. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History Thisisaseriesofmonographsandstudiescoveringmanyaspectsofthehistory oftheBritishIslesbetweenthelatefifteenthcenturyandtheearlyeighteenthcentury.It includestheworkofestablishedscholarsandpioneeringworkbyanewgenerationof scholars.Itincludesbothreviewsandrevisionsofmajortopicsandbookswhichopenup newhistoricalterrainorwhichrevealstartlingnewperspectivesonfamiliarsubjects.Allthe volumessetdetailedresearchwithinbroaderperspectives,andthebooksareintendedfor theuseofstudentsaswellasoftheirteachers. Serieseditors john morrill EmeritusProfessorofBritishandIrishHistory,UniversityofCambridge,and FellowofSelwynCollege ethan shagan ProfessorofHistory,UniversityofCalifornia,Berkeley alex shephard ProfessorofGenderHistory,UniversityofGlasgow alexandra walsham ProfessorofModernHistory, UniversityofCambridge,andFellowofTrinityCollege Foralistoftitlesintheseriesgotowww.cambridge.org/earlymodernbritishhistory THE POLITICAL BIBLE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND KEVIN KILLEEN UniversityofYork UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107107977 ©KevinKilleen2017 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2017 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Killeen,Kevin,author. title:ThepoliticalBibleinearlymodernEngland/KevinKilleen(UniversityofYork). description:Cambridge,UnitedKingdom;NewYork,NY:CambridgeUniversityPress,2016.| Series:CambridgestudiesinearlymodernBritishhistory|Includesbibliographical referencesandindex. identifiers:lccn2016015461|isbn9781107107977(Hardback) subjects:lcsh:Bibleandpolitics–England–History–17thcentury.|Kingsandrulers–Religious aspects–History–17thcentury.|Monarchy–Religiousaspects–History–17thcentury.|Politicsinthe Bible–History–17thcentury.|Bible.OldTestament–Criticism,interpretation,etc.|Bible.Old Testament–Hermeneutics.|Bible–Biography.|Renaissance–England.|England–Churchhistory–17th century.|GreatBritain–Politicsandgovernment–1603–1714. classification:lccbs680.p45k452016|ddc220.8/320094209032–dc23LCrecord availableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016015461 ISBN978-1-107-10797-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For Sharon Holm and Molly Rose Killeen Contents Acknowledgements page viii List of Abbreviations xi 1 Introduction: the political Bible 1 2 Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament 22 3 The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years’ War 52 4 Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor 76 5 Constitution and resistance: the language of civil war political thought 105 6 Dividing the kingdom: Rehoboam and Jeroboam 135 7 Hanging up kings: regicide and political memory 156 8 Preaching on the ramparts: Hezekiah at war 186 9 How Jezebel became sexy: Ahab, Naboth’s land and Jezebelian hermeneutics 207 10 Conclusion 238 Appendix: chronology of biblical kings 244 Primary Bibliography 248 Secondary Bibliography 275 Index 303 vii Acknowledgements Thisbookcitesfromthe1611KingJamesBible,exceptwherethephrasing of the Geneva, Douay-Rheims or other version is at issue. However quotationsareroutinelygivenastheyarefoundintheearlymoderntexts, and these frequently differ from the Authorised Version (AV). This is particularly noticeable in regard to the transliterations of biblical names. Isaiah is often Esay; Ahab may be Achab, Rehoboam is sometimes Roboam, Hezekiah can be Ezekias. On the whole, context resolves this easily enough. Sections of the following articles have been reused, though in all cases, theyappearinsubstantiallydifferentform,andthepublishersarethanked forpermissiontoreprint:‘VeiledSpeech:Preaching,PoliticsandScriptural Typology’, in Peter McCullough, Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan (eds.),TheOxfordHandbookoftheEarly ModernSermon(OxfordUniver- sityPress,2011),bypermissionofOxfordUniversityPress©2011;‘Plague and Popular Anger in Early Modern England’ in Matthew Dimmock and Andrew Hadfield (eds.), Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2009), Excerpted by permission of the Publishers, Copyright © 2009; ‘Hanging up Kings: The Political Bible in Early Modern England’, Journal of the History of Ideas 72:4 (2011), 549–570, ExtractsbypermissionoftheUniversityofPennsylvaniaPress;‘Chastising withScorpions:ReadingtheOldTestamentinEarlyModernEngland’,in ‘The Textuality of Reading in Early Modern England’, eds. Jennifer Richards and Fred Schurink; Special Issue. The Huntington Library Quar- terly 75:3 (2010), 491–506, © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by the University of California Press. Theeditorsoftheseworksdeservemywarmthanksfortheiradvice,and the improvements they suggested, in particular Jenny Richards and Fred Schurink,AndrewHadfieldandMattDimmock,PeterMcCullough,Hugh Adlington and Emma Rhatigan and the anonymous readers for the Journal of the History of Ideas. Insightful advice, useful discussions and excellent viii
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