Programme

Peter Stallybrass (U. Penn)
Letter and Image: Materializing Britain in the 1611 King James Version Hugh Adlington (Birmingham)
Beyond the Page: Quarles's Emblemes, Wall Paintings, and the King James Bible Karen Edwards (Exeter)
The Authorised Version and Biblical Images of Desolation

Emma Major (York)
Britannia, the Bible, and the Glorious Revolution Kim Ian Parker (Memorial University)
The Contribution of the Bible to the Development of Modernity: John Locke and Seventeenth Century Biblical Exegesis Gemma Simmonds CJ (Heythrop College)
Jansenism and the Bible

Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
The Targum or Chaldee Paraphrase: Reading as Interpretation in John Donne's Sermons Linda Linzey (Southeastern University)
The Narrative Power of Biblical Allusions in Donne's Love Elegies Emma Julieta Barreiro (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Reading the Figure of the Prophet Jeremiah and of his Lamentations in Early Seventeenth Century England

Anne M. O'Donnell (Catholic University of America)
"Presbyter", "Diaconos", and "Episcopos": in William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the King James Version Jamie H. Ferguson (University of Houston)
The Roman Inkhorn: Latinization and Biblical English Alena A. Fidlerová (Charles University, Prague)
God, Adam, Babel and the Human Language: Biblical Influences on the Seventeenth Century Linguistic Thought

Gordon Campbell (Leicester)
The Language of the King James Bible Hannibal Hamlin
The Noblest Composition in the Universe or Fit for the Flames: the Literary Style of the King James Bible Nigel Smith (Princeton)
Retranslating the Bible in the English Revolution

Peter McCullough (Oxford)
In the Beginning? Andrewes and the Authorised Version Joe Moshenska (Cambridge)
"The lightest and the largest term": Scriptural Exegesis and the Sense of Touch in Lancelot Andrewes's 1610 Gowrie Sermon Alison Knight (Cambridge)
"The Word in the Flesh": Personal Scriptural Translation in Lancelot Andrewes's Sermons

Rachel Adcock (Loughborough)
"The sutablenesse of the subject in these sheets": Women's Conversion Narratives, the Bible, and the Strengthening of Non-Conformists Amanda Pullan (Lancaster)
Biblical Imagery and Devotional Narratives in English Households, c. 1660-1700 Helen Smith (York)
Reading and Conversion

Tibor Fabiny (Budapest)
The Process of the Text in William Tyndale's Dynamic Hermeneutics Susan Wabuda (Fordham)
"A Day after Doomsday": Cranmer and the 'Failed' Bible Translations of the 1530s Jan James (York)
Vocabulary Versus Doctrine: William Tyndale's Theological Contribution to the King James Version New Testament

Scott Mandelbrote(Cambridge)
The Successes and Failures of Biblical Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England Zur Shalev (Haifa)
The Debate on the Fertility of the Holy Land in Early Modern Scholarship Debora Shuger (UCLA)
The Literal Sense of Scripture in the Post-Reformation

Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
George Herbert's Intertextual Biblical World Adele Davidson (Kenyon College)
Acrostics and the Cross: Intricacies of Inscription in George Herbert's The Temple Gary Waller (Purchase College, State University of New York)
"Hail full of Grace" or "Hail Favored One": the Translations of the Annunciation Greeting and Early Seventeenth Century Polemic and Poetry

Ellie G. Bagley (Middlebury College)
The Catholic Reception of the King James Bible Daniel Cheely (U. Penn)
Different Bokes for Different Folks: Catholic Bibles in Early Modern England Lucy Kostyanovsky (King's, London)
Picturing the Crucifixion During the Reformation

Henk Nellen (Utrecht)
Hugo Grotius (1583-1645): Biblical Criticism and Natural Religion Piet Steenbakkers (Utrecht)
Hobbes and Spinoza on the Authority of the Bible Jetze Touber (Utrecht)
Interaction Between British and Dutch Biblical Scholarship, 1650-1700: the Sabbath