The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton 0812297660, 9780812297669, 9780812252668

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Table of contents :
A Note on Texts
Introduction
Chapter 1. Erasmus’s New Testament and the Politics of Historicism
Chapter 2. Tyndale’s Literalism and the Laws of Moses
Chapter 3. A New Josiah and Bucer’s Theocratic Utopia
Chapter 4. The Word in Exile: The Geneva Bible and Its Readers
Chapter 5. Battling Bibles and Spenser’s Dragon
Chapter 6. Measure for Measure and the New King
Chapter 7. Milton’s Bible and Revolutionary Psalm Culture
Chapter 8. Milton Contra Tyndale
Coda. Legitimating Power
Notes
Bibliography
Biblical Index
General Index
Acknowledgments

The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to Milton
0812297660, 9780812297669, 9780812252668

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