Biblical scholarship in an age of controversy: the polemical world of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612)
Explores the role of the English theological scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) in the development of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and illustrates the contribution that laypeople and 'average believers' made to religious and cultural change, shifting critical attention aw...
| Summary: | Explores the role of the English theological scholar Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) in the development of biblical criticism in the early modern period, and illustrates the contribution that laypeople and 'average believers' made to religious and cultural change, shifting critical attention away from the clerical and academic elites. Cover -- Biblical Scholarship in an Age of Controversy: The Polemical World of Hugh Broughton (1549-1612) -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- 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 I: 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 over 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. |
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| ISBN: | 0192654152 |