Thursday 7th July 2011
9.00 - 10.15 Registration and Coffee
10.15 - 11.15 Session 1 Huntingdon Room Room K133 The Authorised Version Milton 1 Chair: Ian Green Chair: Barbara Lewalski
Helen Wilcox (Bangor), The Authorised Version in its Cultural Moment Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne), Milton’s Bible
Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), The Social Universe of the King James Bible Paul Hammond (Leeds), Milton and the Image of God
11.15 - 12.00 Coffee (Hospitium, York Museum Gardens)
12.00 - 1.00 Plenary: Lori Anne Ferrell (Hospitium, York Museum Gardens); Chair: Bill Sherman
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch (Huntingdon ante-room)
2.00 - 3.30 Session 2 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Room KG33 Scholarship and the Bible Milton 2 Rhetoric and the Word At the Edges of Puritanism Chair: Sarah Mortimer Chair: Amritesh Singh Chair: Rachel Willie Chair: Chanita Goodblatt
Ian Green (Edinburgh) Reiner Smolinski (Georgia State) Matthew Stallard (Ohio) David Appleby (Nottingham) How scripture knowledge was disseminated Historicizing Moses’ ‚Egyptian Echoing Ethos: Paradise Lost and the Preaching during the Restoration among the laity of Elizabethan and Stuart Inventions‛ in Puritan New England: Authorised Version of 1611 England Maimonides, John Spencer, and Cotton David Parry (Toronto) Mather’s ‚Biblia Americana‛ (1693-1728) Nick Hardy (Oxford) Michael Komorowski (Yale) ‚The Practice of the Holy Ghost‛: Puritan 'John Bois, Isaac Casaubon, and the Milton’s Epistle to the Romans: Paradise Preachers’ Readings of the Bible and Thomas Lawrence Long (University of Septuagint' Lost, the Natural Law, and Liberty of Classical Rhetoric Connecticut) Conscience Wigglesworth, Foxe, and The Revelation Chance Woods (Vanderbiltd) Paul Quinn (Sussex) Victoria Brownlee (Queen’s, Belfast) Between Sola Scriptura and Arcana Verba: Jin H. Han (NY Theological Seminary) Which Bible is it anyway? Staging the plays The Whore Made Flesh: Representing Ineffability and Textuality in Seventeenth- Echoes of Jotham’s Fable in John Milton’s of the Reformation history sequence in an Revelation on the Early Modern Stage Century England Political Writings AV world
3.30 – 4.00 Coffee Thursday 7th July 2011 4.00 - 5.30 Session 3 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Early Modern Biblical Reception Milton 3 Scholarly Annotating Chair: Helen Smith Chair: David K. Anderson Chair: Kevin Killeen Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church, Oxford) Anne Prescott (Barnard) Roselyn Farren (Brandeis) Biblical Scholarship and the Cromwellian Church 1643: A year in the life of King Saul The Lord’s Anointed? The Bible, King Saul and Divine settlement Right in John Milton’s Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow) Katherine Calloway (University of British Columbia) Early Modern Davids: Producing Effects of 'Secularisation' Naya Tsentourou (Manchester) Three Ways of Reading ‚Two Books‛: John Wilkins, John ‘Weary with my groaning’: The Physicality of Prayer and Ray, and Richard Bentley Michele Osherow (Maryland) Milton's Petitionary Model Admonishments for a Proud Breed: Reading the Wives Paul C.H. Lim (Vanderbilt) of Moses and David Ayelet Langer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Grotius, Chaldean Paraphrase, Johannine Exegesis and The Narrative of Grace in Paradise Lost: Re-imagining the Quest for the English Bible the Regenerative Power of the Biblical Myth of Adam and Eve
7.00 Conference dinner (Merchant Taylors’ Hall)
Friday 8th July 2011 9.00 - 10.30 Session 1 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Biblical Reading The Geneva and the AV Women and Readers Chair: Helen Wilcox Chair: Paula McQuade Chair: Amritesh Singh
Mary Morrissey (Reading) Elizabeth Clarke (Warwick) Medeline Dewhurst (Open University) The Longevity of the Geneva Bible in the Seventeenth Bible reading and women's authorship Chattering like Cranes and mourning like Doves’: the use of Century biblical references in female petitions from 1641-1652
Erica Longfellow (Kingston) Femke Molekamp (Warwick) Anna Warzycha (Loughborough) Inwardness and the Authorised Version The Geneva Bible: Legacies of Translations and Reading ‘Inlargednesse of mind and activity of spirit’: Zion in Women’s Practices Voices in mid Seventeenth-Century England Jane Rickard (Leeds) ‘Author and mover’: King James and the political Hsing-hao Chao (National Taichung University of Emily Winerock (Toronto): Ambivalent Perspectives on Dancing use of the bible in Jacobean England Education), How Did the King James Bible Win Its Battle in Early Modern Sermons, Moral Treatises, and Biblical against the Geneva Bible? Commentaries
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 11.00 - 12.30 Session 2 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Reason and Voice Women Reading Uses of the AV Chair: Karen Edwards Chair: Helen Smith Chair: Rachel Willie
Torrance Kirby (McGill University) Paula McQuade (DePaul, Chicago) Mark Somos (Sussex) The 'sundrie waies of Wisdom': Richard Hooker on The Bible, Maternal-Directed Catechisms and Early Hobbes’s use of the AV, the Geneva and other Bibles in Leviathan, the authority of Scripture and Reason’ Modern Women Writers Part III
Roger Pooley (Keele) Antoinina Bevan Zlatar (Zurich) Russ Leo (Princeton) How to prove things from the Bible: the case of the Like an Owl in the Desert: the Bible in Lady Anne "Every man did that which was right in his own eyes": anti-atheists? Clifford’s diaries, portraits and monuments Enthusiasm, Sovereignty and the 1611 Authorised Version of The Book of Judges Katrin Ettenhuber (Cambridge) Katey E. Roden (Massachusetts-Amherst) "Tolle, lege": Augustine and Scriptural authority in Quaker Women Preaching Paul: Katherine Evans’ and Katy Mair (The National Archives) "The Translators to the Reader" Sarah Cheevers’ Reinscription of the Female Body Readers and Plaintiffs: the diverse functions of the King James Bibles found in The National Archives
12.30 - 1.30 Lunch (Huntingdon ante-room) Friday 8th July 2011 1.30 - 3.00 Session 3 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Questioning the AV Preaching, Reading and Dissent Shakespeare and the Bible Chair: Gordon Campbell Chair: Emma Major Chair: Jane Rickard Mark Burden (Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Erica Sheen (York) Nicholas McDowell (Exeter) Studies) Kissing the Book: revising the relation between power and Laudianism and Scepticism: Jeremy Taylor and the Reading the Bible at the Dissenters’ Academies, 1660- knowledge in The Tempest.
Errors of the AV 1720 Druann Bauer (Ohio Northern University) Nancy Rosenfeld (Max Stern College of Jezreel Valley) From Cordelia’s Lips: Death is an Exit from that ‘Dark and Painful Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield) ‚Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows‛: Prison’
Donne’s Bibles John Bunyan’s Joseph David K. Anderson (Oklahoma)
Brad Holden (Yale), John Bunyan and the Saul and David in the Forest of Arden: Shakespeare, Scripture and Kenneth Padley (Bangor) Hermeneutics of Salvation Political Resistance Reannotating the King James Version
3.00 - 3.30 Coffee 3.30 - 5.00 Session 4 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Radical Bible Europe and the Printed Bible Psalm Culture and Marian Culture Chair: Erica Sheen Chair: Simon Ditchfield Chair: Gary Waller Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths) Marc Caball (UCD) Jennifer Downer (Arizona State University) "Not the word of God": The King James Bible in the Elizabeth’s unacknowledged gift: print, Protestantism Cross-biased: George Herbert’s 'Affliction' Poems, the Penitential hands of antiscripturists and Gaelic Ireland Psalms, and the Location of Value
Andrew Bradstock (University of Otago) Robert Dittmann (Charles University, Prague) Emily Fine (Brandeis) Levelling, Digging and Ranting: The Bible and Civil Three 17th Century Biblical Prints of the Unity of the ‚My praises uttmost skill‛: The Psalms of Mary Sidney Herbert, War Sects Brethren (the New Testament of 1601, the Kralice Bible Countess of Pembroke
Christopher N. Fritsch of 1613 and Comenius’ Manualnik of 1658) Laura Gallagher (Queen’s Belfast) The Bible in the Hands of a Quaker: Understanding Berthold Kress (Cambridge) ‚The tongue esteemed the worst part in a woman was in her the William Penn’s Use of the Bible Illustrating the New Testament in 16th-century best‛: The Virgin Mary’s Voice Germany
5.00-6.00 Coffee (Merchant Taylors’ Hall)
6.00 - 7.00 Plenary: Barbara Lewalski - ‘Milton, the Bible and Biblical Epic’ (Merchant Taylors’ Hall) Chair - Paul Hammond
Saturday 9th July 2011 9.30 - 11.00 Session 1 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Room KG33 Word and Image Towards the Eighteenth Century Donne and Reception Language and Translation Chair: Bill Sherman Chair: Reiner Smolinski Chair: Piers Brown Chair: Elizabeth McCutcheon Chanita Goodblatt (Ben-Gurion University Anne M. O'Donnell (Catholic University Peter Stallybrass (U. Penn) Emma Major (University of York) of the Negev), The Targum or Chaldee of America), ‚Presbyter‛, ‚Diaconos‛, Letter and Image: Materializing Britain in Britannia, the Bible, and the Glorious Paraphrase: Reading as Interpretation in and ‚Episcopos‛: in William Tyndale, the 1611 KJV Revolution. John Donne's Sermons Thomas More, and the King James
Version Linda Linzey (Southeastern University), Hugh Adlington (Birmingham) Kim Ian Parker (Memorial University) The Narrative Power of Biblical Allusions Jamie H. Ferguson ( Houston), The Beyond the page: Quarles's Emblemes, Wall The contribution of the Bible to the in Donne’s Love Elegies Roman Inkhorn: Latinization and Paintings, and the King James Bible development of modernity: John Locke and Biblical English 17th century biblical exegesis Emma Julieta Barreiro (Universidad Alena A. Fidlerová (Charles University, Karen Edwards (Exeter) Nacional Autónoma de México) , Reading Prague), God, Adam, Babel and the The Authorised Version and Biblical Images ofGemma Simmonds CJ (Heythrop College) the figure of the prophet Jeremiah and of Human Language: Biblical Influences on Desolation Jansenism and the Bible his Lamentations in early seventeenth century England the 17th Century Linguistic Thought
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee 11.30 - 1.00 Session 2 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Room KG33 Language and the KJB Lancelot Andrewes Conversion Narratives Sixteenth Century Bibles Chair: Hugh Adlington Chair: Piers Brown Chair: Simon Ditchfield Chair: Rachel Willie
Peter McCullough (Oxford), In the Beginning? Rachel Adcock (Loughborough) ‘The Gordon Campbell (Leicester) Tibor Fabiny (Budapest), The Process of Andrewes and the Authorised Version sutablenesse of the subject in these sheets’: The Language of the King James Bible the Text in William Tyndale’s Dynamic Women’s conversion narratives, the Bible, Joe Moshenska (Cambridge), ‘The lightest and Hermeneutics Hannibal Hamlin (Ohio) the largest term’: Scriptural Exegesis and the and the strengthening of non-conformists The noblest composition in the universe or Susan Wabuda (Fordham), ‚A Day after Sense of Touch in Lancelot Andrewes’s 1610 Amanda Pullan (Lancaster), Biblical Fit for the Flames: the Literary Style of the Doomsday‛:Cranmer and the `failed’ Gowrie Sermon. Imagery and Devotional Narratives in King James Bible Bible translations of the 1530s Alison Knight (Cambridge), 'The Word in the English Households, c. 1660-1700 Nigel Smith (Princeton) Jan James (York), Vocabulary versus Flesh': Personal Scriptural Translation in Helen Smith (York), Reading and Retranslating the Bible in the English Doctrine: William Tyndale’s Theological Lancelot Andrewes's Sermons Conversion Revolution contribution to the KJV New Testament Saturday 9th July 2011
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch
2.00 - 3.30 Session 3 Huntingdon Room Room K133 Room K111 Room KG33 Word and Interpretation Poetry and the Bible Catholicism and the Bible Dutch Biblical Culture Chair: Kevin Killeen Chair: Nancy Rosenfeld Chair: Chloe Preedy Chair: Rachel Willie
Noam Flinker (Haifa), George Herbert’s Ellie G. Bagley (Middlebury College) Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge) Henk Nellen, (Utrecht) ‘Hugo Grotius Intertextual Biblical World The Catholic Reception of the King The Successes and Failures of Biblical Chronology (1583-1645): Biblical Criticism and James Bible in Seventeenth-Century England Adele Davidson (Kenyon College), Natural Religion
Acrostics and the Cross: Intricacies of Daniel Cheely (Pennsylvania) Zur Shalev (Haifa) Piet Steenbakkers (Utrecht), ‘Hobbes and Inscription in George Herbert’s The Different Bokes for Different Folks: The debate on the fertility of the Holy Land in Spinoza on the authority of the Bible Temple Catholic Bibles in Early Modern England early modern scholarship Jetze Touber (Utrecht), ‘Interaction Gary Waller (Purchase College, SUNY), Lucy Kostyanovsky (King’s, London) , Debora Shuger (UCLA) between British and Dutch Biblical ‚Hail full of Grace‛ or ‚Hail Favored Picturing the Crucifixion during the The Literal Sense of Scripture in the Post- Scholarship, 1650-1700: the Sabbath One‛: the Translations of the Reformation Reformation Annunciation Greeting and Early
Seventeenth Century Polemic and Poetry
3.30 - 4.00 Coffee
4.00 - 5.00 Plenary: Peter Lake (King’s Manor, Huntingdon Room), Chair: Gordon Campbell