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The Biblical Genealogies of the King James Bible (1611): Their Purpose, Sources and Significance

cam.issuedOnline2018-06-14
cam.orpheus.counter9
dc.contributor.authorMacfarlane, Kirsten
dc.date.accessioned2018-06-08T13:00:48Z
dc.date.available2018-06-08T13:00:48Z
dc.date.issued2018-06-01
dc.description.abstractThis article provides a systematic analysis of the genealogies prefixed to the King James Bible (1611), giving the first examination of their contemporary significance and purpose, as well as the collaboration between the Hebraist Hugh Broughton and the cartographer John Speed that produced them. By placing the diagrams within the context of Speed and Broughton's greater interests, as well as through the use of several previously unstudied drafts, it will show that the genealogies had a clear polemical function, emerged from a subsidiary of the thriving field of chronology, and can be placed within a longstanding visual tradition capable of explaining many of the peculiarities on which modern scholars have remained silent. Finally, it will argue that the genealogies were an ingenious kind of ‘reading technology’ produced through a synthesis of sacred and secular scholarship that aimed to transmit the products of learned, neo-Latin scholarship to an unlearned, English readership.
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the AHRC-Polonsky Studentship.
dc.identifier.doi10.17863/CAM.24079
dc.identifier.eissn1744-8581
dc.identifier.issn0024-2160
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/276788
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.publisher.urlhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/library/19.2.131
dc.subject46 Information and Computing Sciences
dc.subject47 Language, Communication and Culture
dc.subject4610 Library and Information Studies
dc.subject4705 Literary Studies
dc.titleThe Biblical Genealogies of the King James Bible (1611): Their Purpose, Sources and Significance
dc.typeArticle
dcterms.dateAccepted2016-09-26
prism.endingPage158
prism.issueIdentifier2
prism.publicationDate2018
prism.publicationNameThe Library: the transactions of the Bibliographical Society
prism.startingPage131
prism.volume19
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rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Review
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord10.1093/library/19.2.131

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