The Political Bible in Early Modern England

Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: the political Bible -- Chapter 2 Early modern hermeneutics and the Old Testament -- Judaism and reading -- The unity of the text -- Typology and history -- Obsolescence and inconsistency: doubt and antinomianism -- Chapter 3 The sermon, the listener and enemy theory in the Thirty Years' War -- Chapter 4 Hezekiah, the politics of municipal plague and the London poor -- Plague and the politics of flight -- Chapter 5 Constitution and resistance: the language of civil war political thought -- Theories of resistance and the origins of kingship -- Fast Sermons and the constitutional idiom -- Monarchy and masochism (1 Samuel 8) -- Chapter 6 Dividing the kingdom: Rehoboam and Jeroboam -- Dividing the Kingdom -- Jeroboam, the people and the constitution -- Chapter 7 Hanging up kings: regicide and political memory -- Killing kings: theory and practice -- Anointing regicide: King Jehu -- The sweet fruit of the scaf fold -- Chapter 8 Preaching on the ramparts: Hezekiah at war -- Christological Hezekiah -- Chapter 9 How Jezebel became sexy: Ahab, Naboth's land and Jezebelian hermeneutics -- Naboth, the poor and the law -- Constitution and Naboth's vineyard -- The quotidian sexual and the cosmic sexual -- Chapter 10 Conclusion -- Appendix: chronology of biblical kings -- Primary Bibliography -- Secondary Bibliography -- Index