The Political Bible in Early Modern England - Killeen, Kevin (University of York)
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"Looks at the political uses of the biblical kings and the Old Testament in the Renaissance ... the work explores the scriptural ambivalence to and suspicion of monarchy and constitutes a reception history of the biblical texts on kingship across the seventeenth century; the study also provides an account of the biblical idiom of politics in the era"--From author's University of York web page.

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"Looks at the political uses of the biblical kings and the Old Testament in the Renaissance ... the work explores the scriptural ambivalence to and suspicion of monarchy and constitutes a reception history of the biblical texts on kingship across the seventeenth century; the study also provides an account of the biblical idiom of politics in the era"--From author's University of York web page.
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Kevin Killeen is a Senior Lecturer at the University of York. He is the author of Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England: Thomas Browne and the Thorny Place of Knowledge (2009), which won the Council for College and University English Book Prize and was shortlisted for the Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize of the History of Science Society. He is editor of the Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c.1530-1700 (with Helen Smith and Rachel Judith Willie, 2015) and Thomas Browne: Oxford 21st Century Authors (2014), and has won both the Council of University Deans Prize and the Renaissance Studies essay prize.