Acknowledgments VII
List of Illustrations VIII
Abbreviations IX
Contributors X
1
Introduction: Protestant England and the English Bible 1
Robert Armstrong
2
‘So sholde lewde men lerne by ymages’: Religious Imagery and Bible Learning 29
Lucy Wooding
3
The Laity and the Bible in Early Modern England 53
Ian Green
4
Nuts, Kernels, Wading Lambs and Swimming Elephants: Preachers and Their Handling of Biblical Texts 84
Mary Morrissey
5
Early Modern Catholic Perspectives on the Biblical Text: The Bellarmine and Whitaker Debate 104
Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
6
The Catholic Contribution to the King James Bible 131
Gordon Campbell
7
Bible Reading, Puritan Devotion, and the Transformation of Politics in the English Revolution 141
Crawford Gribben
8
‘Not the Word of God’: Varieties of Antiscripturism during the English Revolution 161
Ariel Hessayon
9
‘Syllables governe the world’: Biblical Criticism, Erudition, Heterodoxy and Thomas Hobbes 183
Justin Champion
Index 213