The Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There h

The Bible is the single most influential text in Western culture, yet the history of biblical scholarship in early modern England has yet to be written. There h

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

This volume of essays is the first to embrace both orthodox and heterodox treatments of scripture in early modern England, and in the process to question, chall

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an un