Programme

Elizabeth Clarke (Warwick)
Bible Reading and Women's Authorship Erica Longfellow (Kingston)
Inwardness and the Authorised Version Jane Rickard (Leeds)
"Author and Mover": King James and the Political Use of the Bible in Jacobean England

Mary Morrissey (Reading)
The Longevity of the Geneva Bible in the Seventeenth Century Femke Molekamp (Warwick)
The Geneva Bible: Legacies of Translations and Reading Practices Hsing-hao Chao (National Taichung University of Education
How Did the King James Bible Win its Battle Against the Geneva Bible?

Madeline Dewhurst (Open University)
"Chattering like cranes and mourning Like doves": the Use of Biblical References in Female Petitions from 1641-1652 Anna Warzycha (Loughborough)
"Inlargednesse of mind and activity of spirit": Zion in Women's Voices and in Mid Seventeenth-Century England Emily Winerock (Toronto)
Ambivalent Perspectives on Dancing in Early Modern Sermons, Moral Treatises, and Biblical Commentaries

Torrance Kirby (McGill University)
The "sundrie waies of Wisdom": Richard Hooker on the Authority of Scripture and Reason Roger Pooley (Keele)
How to Prove Things from the Bible: the Case of the Anti-Atheists? Katrin Ettenhuber(Cambridge)
"Tolle, lege": Augustine and Scriptural Authority in "The Translators to the Reader"

Paula McQuade (DePaul, Chicago)
The Bible, Maternal-Directed Catechisms and Early Modern Women Writers Antoinina Bevan Zlater (Zurich)
Like and Owl in the Desert: the Bible in Lady Anne Clifford's Diaries, Portraits and Monuments Katey E. Roden (Massachusetts-Amherst)
Quaker Women Preaching Paul: Katherine Evans' and Sarah Cheevers' Reinscription of the Female Body

Mark Somos (Sussex)
Hobbes's Use of the Authorised Version, the Geneva and Other Bibles in Leviathan, Part III Russ Leo (Princeton)
"Every man did that which was right in his own eyes": Enthusiasm, Sovereignty and the 1611 Authorised Version of The Book of Judges Katy Mair (National Archives)
Readers and Plaintiffs: the Diverse Functions of the King James Bibles Found in the National Archives

Nicholas McDowell (Exeter)
Laudianism and Scepticism: Jeremy Taylor and the Errors of the Authorised Version Emma Rhatigan (Sheffield)
Donne's Bibles Kenneth Padley (Bangor)
Reannotating the King James Version

Mark Burden (Dr Williams' Centre for Dissenting Studies)
Reading the Bible at the Dissenters' Academies, 1660-1720 Nancy Rosenfeld (Max Stern College of Jezreel Valley)
"Blessed Joseph! I would thou hadst more fellows": John Bunyan's Joseph Brad Holden (Yale)
John Bunyan and the Hermeneutics of Salvation

Erica Sheen (York)
Kissing the Book: Revising the Relation Between Power and Knowledge in The Tempest Druann Bauer (Ohio Northern University)
From Cordelia's Lips: Death is an Exit from that "Dark and Painful Prison"David K. Anderson (Oklahoma)
Saul and David in the Forest of Arden: Shakespeare, Scripture and Political Resistance

Ariel Hessayon (Goldsmiths)
"Not the word of God": The King James Bible in the Hands of Antiscripturists Andrew Bradstock (University of Otago)
Levelling, Digging and Ranting: The Bible and Civil War Sects Christopher N. Fritsch
The Bible in the Hands of a Quaker: Understanding William Penn's Use of the Bible

Marc Caball (UCD)
Elizabeth's Unacknowledged Gift: Print, Protestantism and Gaelic Ireland Robert Dittmann (Charles University, Prague)
Three Seventeenth Century Biblical Prints of the Unity of the Brethren (the New Testament of 1601, the Kralice Bible of 1613 and Comenius' Manualnik of 1658) Berthold Kress (Cambridge)
Illustrating the New Testament in Sixteenth-Century Germany

Jennifer Downer (Arizona State University)
Herbert and Psalm Culture Emily Fine (Brandeis)
"My praises uttmost skill": The Psalms of Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke Laura Gallagher (Queen's Belfast)
"The tongue esteemed the worst part in a woman was in her the best": The Virgin Mary's Voice