Chastising with Scorpions:  Reading the Old Testament in Early Modern England

Kevin Killeen

doi:10.1525/hlq.2010.73.3.491

Chastising with Scorpions: Reading the Old Testament in Early Modern England

Kevin Killeen

English and Related Literature

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Abstract

In this essay, Kevin Killeen explores an imgrained yet contentious reading habit of early modern England, the mapping of the biblical onto contemporary politics. Book history, with its focus on the physical object, has at times served to occlude the protocols of such typology. By analyzing typological readings of the biblical kings Rehoboam and Jeroboam, he shows some of the political, spiritual, and hermeneutic uses to which the Bible was put.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	491-506
Number of pages	16
Journal	Huntington Library Quarterly
Volume	73
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1525/hlq.2010.73.3.491
Publication status	Published - Sept 2010

Bibliographical note

Part of a special issue: 'The Textuality and Materiality of Reading in Early Modren England'

Keywords

biblical interpretation in early modern England
John Cave
Joseph Hall
John Donne
John Maxwell

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