The Book of Books : Biblical interpretation, literary culture, and the political imagination from Erasmus to Milton
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The Book of Books : Biblical interpretation, literary culture, and the political imagination from Erasmus to Milton
University of Pennsylvania Press, [2020]
1st edition
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"Published in cooperation with Folger Shakespeare Library"
Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary: "This book examines the process of recovery, reinterpretation, and reuse of scripture in the early modern political imagination. It focuses in particular on the literary and cultural transformations of the biblical text for political purposes. It thereby attends to Hobbes' concern in Behemoth that independent scriptural reading led to the dissolution of authority by seeking to understand what role the Bible had in shaping early modern political thought. But most importantly, this study seeks to understand how, precisely, it played this role: what hermeneutic and practical procedures enabled early modern English readers to transform this supremely authoritative text for their use? How did certain imperatives in reading-such as literalism, or whatever we might call their actual method-shape or impede this transformation? To get at the most common, most everyday form of reading, and the most immediate transition from biblical text to cultural discourse, the author is drawn in particular to the apparatus
