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

The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and in

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature

Explores the cultural functions played in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by accounts of the Bible's origins.

This book ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific communities to locate acts of reading in specific hist