The dark bible: cultures of interpretation in Early Modern England
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| adam_text | Contents Notefor the Reader List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations ix x xi Introduction: A Confused Chaos Biblical Darkness in the Early Modern Period Sources of Darkness 1. Contradiction Henry VIII’s Great Matter: Leviticus versus Deuteronomy Continuing Contradictions, Continuing Conflicts Consonancy in Contrariety: John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Musical Truth 1 12 26 35 40 72 74 80 2. Ambiguity ‘Lies Like Truth’: Equivocation and the Duplicity of Language Saint Peter’s Complaint: Robert Southwell and Contrary Language A Contrary Tongue: John Donne and Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible 3. Defects The Circumstances Going Before and After Manifest Eclipses: Job 19:26 Manifest Eclipses: Romans 5:18 Bare Texts: Adding in Paraphrase The Creative Defect: Daniel Featley and the Pictures of Timanthes 4. Disorder The Order of the Story: History versus Narrative Concepts of Disordered Narrative Rearranging the Bible: Biblical Harmonies Richard Humfrey’s Job: The Text in Pieces An Organized Bible 5. Idiom Translating Idioms: Form and Sense The Uncertainties of Idiom: Marginal Notes and Inkhorn Terms Idiom in English Bibles 82 85 95 99 114 120 124 126 130 136 141 146 151 159 173 175 178 180 189 194
viii CONTENTS 6. Figures Figurative Meaning and the Protestant Literal Sense ‘Beware of Taking a Figurative Expression Literally’: Recognizing Metaphor ‘Turn It Over Every Way until We Come to a True Interpretation’: Understanding Enigma What is This? The Meanings of Manna Delectable Darkness Epilogue: Chiaroscuro Bibliography Index 228 229 235 244 253 269 271 279 307
The Dark Bible explores early modern England’s interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not always experienced as such. While traditional interpretive precepts, such as the claim that all dark passages could be read in the light of clear ones, were frequently recited by early modern commentators, their actual encounters with the darkness of the Bible suggest that writers, commentators, and translators were often deeply uncomfortable with the disjunction between tvhat the Bible should be, and tvhat it actually was. The Dark Bible investigates writers’and translators’attempts to explain, accommodate, circumvent, and repair problematic texts across a range of genres and contexts. It charts early modern English use of biblical scholarship in vernacular culture and investigates how vernacular writing in various genres could give voice to questioning and confused biblical interactions. The Dark Bible demonstrates that early modern writers and critics engaged extensively with the Bible’s difficulties, attempting to work around and rectify problematic texts, and otherwise reconcile the darkness of the Bible with theories or the Bible’s perfection and clarity.
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Contents Notefor the Reader List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations ix x xi Introduction: A Confused Chaos Biblical Darkness in the Early Modern Period Sources of Darkness 1. Contradiction Henry VIII’s Great Matter: Leviticus versus Deuteronomy Continuing Contradictions, Continuing Conflicts Consonancy in Contrariety: John Donne’s Devotions upon Emergent Occasions Musical Truth 1 12 26 35 40 72 74 80 2. Ambiguity ‘Lies Like Truth’: Equivocation and the Duplicity of Language Saint Peter’s Complaint: Robert Southwell and Contrary Language A Contrary Tongue: John Donne and Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible 3. Defects The Circumstances Going Before and After Manifest Eclipses: Job 19:26 Manifest Eclipses: Romans 5:18 Bare Texts: Adding in Paraphrase The Creative Defect: Daniel Featley and the Pictures of Timanthes 4. Disorder The Order of the Story: History versus Narrative Concepts of Disordered Narrative Rearranging the Bible: Biblical Harmonies Richard Humfrey’s Job: The Text in Pieces An Organized Bible 5. Idiom Translating Idioms: Form and Sense The Uncertainties of Idiom: Marginal Notes and Inkhorn Terms Idiom in English Bibles 82 85 95 99 114 120 124 126 130 136 141 146 151 159 173 175 178 180 189 194
viii CONTENTS 6. Figures Figurative Meaning and the Protestant Literal Sense ‘Beware of Taking a Figurative Expression Literally’: Recognizing Metaphor ‘Turn It Over Every Way until We Come to a True Interpretation’: Understanding Enigma What is This? The Meanings of Manna Delectable Darkness Epilogue: Chiaroscuro Bibliography Index 228 229 235 244 253 269 271 279 307
The Dark Bible explores early modern England’s interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. For the early modern reader, although the Bible was understood to be perfect, sufficient, and transcendent (indeed, the Protestant Reformation required it), it was not always experienced as such. While traditional interpretive precepts, such as the claim that all dark passages could be read in the light of clear ones, were frequently recited by early modern commentators, their actual encounters with the darkness of the Bible suggest that writers, commentators, and translators were often deeply uncomfortable with the disjunction between tvhat the Bible should be, and tvhat it actually was. The Dark Bible investigates writers’and translators’attempts to explain, accommodate, circumvent, and repair problematic texts across a range of genres and contexts. It charts early modern English use of biblical scholarship in vernacular culture and investigates how vernacular writing in various genres could give voice to questioning and confused biblical interactions. The Dark Bible demonstrates that early modern writers and critics engaged extensively with the Bible’s difficulties, attempting to work around and rectify problematic texts, and otherwise reconcile the darkness of the Bible with theories or the Bible’s perfection and clarity. |
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