Biblical scholarship in an age of controversy : the polemical world of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) /

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Author / Creator:	Macfarlane, Kirsten, 1991- author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. ©2021
Description:	viii, 266 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Broughton, Hugh, -- 1549-1612. Broughton, Hugh, -- 1549-1612. Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 16th century. Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- 17th century. Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/14131044

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ISBN:	0192898825 9780192898821
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-257) and indexes.
Summary:	This book provides a new account of a distinctive, important, but forgotten moment in early modern religious and intellectual history. In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, Christian scholars were investing heavily in techniques for studying the Bible that would now be recognised as the foundations of modern biblical criticism. According to previous studies, this process of transformation was caused by academic elites whose work, whether religious or secular in its motivations, paved the way for the Bible to be seen as a human document rather than a divine message. At the time, however, such methods were not simply an academic concern, and they pointed in many directions other than that of secular modernity. Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy establishes previously unknown religious and cultural contexts for the practice of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and reveals the diversity of its effects. The central figure in this story is the itinerant and bitterly divisive English scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612), whose prolific writings in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English offer a new and surprising image of Protestant intellectual culture. In this image, scholarly advances were not impeded but inspired by strict scripturalism; criticism was driven by missionary ideals, even as actual proselytization was sidelined; and learned neo-Latin texts were repackaged to appeal to ordinary believers. Seen through the eyes of Broughton and his neglected colleagues and followers, the complex and unexpected contributions of reformed Protestant intellectuals and laypeople to longer-term religious and cultural change finally become visible.

Table of Contents:

List of Figures
Abbreviations and Conventions
Introduction: Hugh Broughton, Now and Then
The Creation of an 'Angry Puritan'
Early Promise, Early Problems: The Young Broughton
Scholar, Controversialist, Pedagogue
Part 1. Chronology and Its Consequences
1. From Chronology to Theology
A Scriptural, Hebraic Chronology
What Has Purgatory to Do with the Persian Monarchy?
John Rainolds vs Broughton: A Question of Method?
The Aftermath
2. From Chronology to Translation
The Four Kingdoms of Daniel
Battle of the Hebraists
The Campaign for a New English Bible
3. From Chronology to Genealogy
The Intellectual Background: Harmonizing Christ's Parentage
The Visual Depiction: Drafting the Diagrams
The Biblical Genealogies as Popular Scholarship
Part II. Controversy and Its Consequences
4. Jewish Conversion in Europe and Constantinople
Germany and Switzerland
Amsterdam
Middelburg
5. Theological Controversy in England and Geneva
Christ's Descent into Hell: An Overview
Broughton and the English Bishops
Theological Method in the Debate oyer the Descent
Broughton, Beza, and the Jesuits
'By Boldness a Confuter of Himself'
6. Unrealized Ambitions: The New Testament
The Language of the New Testament
The Contexts of the New Testament
Translating the New Testament
Scholarship for the People
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Scriptural References
Index of People, Places and Topics

Biblical scholarship in an age of controversy : the polemical world of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) /

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