TY - BOOK ID - 78492129 TI - Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 AU - Brownlee, Victoria AU - Gallagher, Laura PY - 2016 SN - 1526110636 9781526110633 1526110628 0719091551 9781526110626 PB - Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Women in the Bible. KW - Bible KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History KW - 1500 - 1699 KW - Literature and literary studies KW - Literary studies: general / Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - Biography, Literature & Literary studies KW - General. KW - Literary studies: general. KW - Eve. KW - Genesis. KW - New Testament. KW - Old Testament. KW - Revelation. KW - Whore of Babylon. KW - biblical women. KW - early modern Bibles. KW - early modern exegesis. KW - early modern literary culture. KW - feminine archetypes. KW - religious divisions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78492129 AB - At once pervasive and marginal, appealing and repellent, exemplary and atypical, the women of the Bible provoke an assortment of readings across early modern literature. Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draws attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. Considering a confessionally diverse range of writers, working across a variety of genres, this volume reveals how women from the Old and New Testaments exhibit an ideological power that frequently exceeds, both in scope and s ER -