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Thursday 7th July 2011

Friday 8th July 2011

Saturday 9th July 2011

9:00-10:15 Registration and Coffee 10:15-11:15 Session 1 (click titles to expand)

The Authorised Version (Huntingdon Room)

Helen Wilcox (Bangor)
The Authorised Version in its Cultural Moment Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster)
The Social Universe of the King James Bible

Milton 1 (Room K133)

Neil Forsyth (Université de Lausanne)
Milton's Bible Paul Hammond (Leeds)
Milton and the Image of God

11.15-12.00 Coffee at the Hospitium, York Museum Gardens, followed by 12.00-1.00 Plenary: Lori Anne Ferrell 1.00-2.00 Lunch (Huntingdon Ante Room) 2:00-3:30 Session 2 (click titles to expand)

Scholarship and the Bible (Huntingdon Room)

Ian Green (Edinburgh)
How Scripture Knowledge was Disseminated Among the Laity of Elizabethan and Stuart England Nick Hardy (Oxford)
John Bois, Isaac Casaubon and the Septuagint Chance Woods (Vanderbilt)
Between Sola Scriptura and Arcana Verba: Ineffability and Textuality in Seventeenth-Century England

Milton 2 (Room K133)

Matthew Stallard (Ohio)
Echoing Ethos: Paradise Lost and the Authorised Version of 1611 Michael Komorowski (Yale)
Milton's Epistle to the Romans: Paradise Lost, the Natural Law, and Liberty of Conscience Jin H. Han, (NY Theological Seminary)
Echoes of Jotham's Fable in John Milton's Political Writings

Rhetoric and the Word (Room K111)

David Appleby (Nottingham)
Preaching During the Restoration David Parry (Toronto)
"The Practice of the Holy Ghost": Puritan Preachers' Readings of the Bible and Classical Rhetoric Paul Quinn (Sussex)
Which Bible is it Anyway? Staging the Plays of the Reformation in an AV World

At the Edges of Puritanism (Room K/G33)

Reiner Smolinski (Georgia State)
Historicizing Moses' "Egyptian Inventions" in Puritan New England: Maimonides, John Spencer, and Cotton Mather's "Biblia Americana" (1693-1728) Thomas Lawrence Long (University of Connecticut)
Wigglesworth, Foxe, and The Revelation Victoria Brownlee (Queen's, Belfast)
The Whore Made Flesh: Representing Revelation on the Early Modern Stage

3.30-4.00 Coffee (Huntingdon Ante Room) 4:00-5:30 Session 3 (click titles to expand)

Early Modern Biblical Reception (Huntingdon Room)

Anne Prescott (Barnard)
1643: A Year in the Life of King Saul Yvonne Sherwood (Glasgow)
Early Modern Davids: Producing Effects of 'Secularisation' Michele Osherow (Maryland)
Admonishments for a Proud Breed: Reading the Wives of Moses and David

Milton 3 (Room K133)

Roselyn Farren (Brandeis)
The Lord's Anointed? The Bible, King Saul and Divine Right in John Milton's Tenure of Kings and Magistrates Naya Tsentourou (Manchester)
"Weary with my groaning": The Physicality of Prayer and Milton's Petitionary Model Ayelet Langer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
The Narative of Grace in Paradise Lost: Re-imagining the Regenerative Power of the Biblical Myth of Adam and Eve

Scholarly Annotating (Room K111)

Sarah Mortimer (Christ Church College, Oxford)
Biblical Scholarship and the Cromwellian Church settlement Katherine Calloway (University of British Columbia)
Three Ways of Reading "Two Books": John Wilkins, John Ray, and Richard Bentley Paul C.H. Lim (Vanderbilt)
Grotius, Chaldean Paraphrase, Johannine Exegesis and the Quest for the English Bible

7.00 Conference Dinner (Merchant Taylors' Hall)