...Jeffrey Alan Miller The part played by the Geneva Bible in the composition of the King James Version (1611) has been a vexed issue from the very commissioning of the King James translation in 1604. This essay sheds new light on the issue by focusing in detail on two extant drafts of the King James...

...Thomas Fulton The most widely circulated bible in the English Renaissance was produced by exiled English Protestants living in Geneva during the reign of Queen Mary I. With over 140 editions and half a million copies in circulation, the Geneva Bible and its complex marginal devices played a major...

... political culture. The play's medievalism and its biblical allusions critically expose the efforts of some English Protestants to authorize power on the basis of a fundamentalist reading of the Bible. The biblical interests of Measure for Measure also respond to the king's censure of the Geneva Bible...

... available to her, it is possible to trace which bible Lanyer preferred. Surprisingly, despite Lanyer's preference for the Geneva translation, she also made use of the Bishops' Bible, suggesting that the poet carefully sifted through different English translations as she sought to generate biblical authority...

... it is important to understand individual bibles and their readers in their own right. The Bible took many different forms in the early English Renaissance. During the Elizabethan period and most of the Jacobean period, the best-­selling Bible was not, in fact, the King James but the so-­called Geneva...

... between and around with the terminus post quem provided by the annotator’s direct and implied use of the Geneva Bible which was almost certainly at his elbow as he engaged with the Prickynge. This hugely popular English trans- lation of the Bible had been produced by exiles from Mary Tudor’s...

..., translating the Greek phrase literally. Per- haps the most important exceptions to this are the Wyclif New Testament and the Geneva Bible, which provided rapturous language for Peter’s vision in Acts Nevertheless, reformers found that this was su cient to unify the multiple examples of biblical...

... history. For example, the cal- endar prefixed to the 1583 English Geneva Bible offers historical commen- tary about both scriptural and nonscriptural events such as the burning of John Hus in 1415.37 Whether or not Foxe’s calendar actually inspired these subsequent historical calendars, his text...

...). The psalmist specifically addresses an audience of elites: “Certis, I sayde, ye are all goddis, and sonnes of the most hye: but yet as men and mortall kyngis, ye shall fall downe and dye” (fol. 4v). The 1560 Geneva Bible’s printed gloss to this passage drives home the specific identification...

...: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (KJV, Heb. 13:1–2). 42 The Geneva Bible glosses Paul’s use of “brotherly love” as commending “the second table, the summe whereof is charitie, especially towards strangers and those afflicted.” As we have seen, Downham’s work is an extended attempt...

... prostrate: “And the Lord opened the eies of Balaám, Schreyer / Balaam to Bottom 423 and . . . he bowed him selfe and fel flat on his face” (Num. Geneva Bible So, even in scripture, the passage is humorous, and though no stage directions dictate the stage...

... in the margents”; so, in the following century, did James I, who believed that glossing inaugurated a disturbing new tradi- tion that was perpetuated and exacerbated by the ubiquitous Geneva Bible, whose notes he labeled “very partiall, untrue, seditious, and savouring too much of dangerous and traitorous...

... a fall. The fourth day of Creation not only reveals human glory but also marks the beginning of the natural, hierarchical order of the Christian cos- mos. In a marginal gloss, the Geneva Bible declares that the passage speaks “Of things apperteining to natural and political ordres.” As Julia...

...,” see Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion, 2nd ed. rev. (Boston: Beacon Press, 1963), 174 – 206. 86 Quoted in Williams, Radical Reformation, 493. Williams makes the connection to Valentinus, but does not suggest that Hofmann directly knew of his doctrines. The Geneva Bible gloss...

... increase of the body, unto the edifying of itself in love” (Eph. 4:15–16). The Geneva Bible's gloss expands on the bodily metaphor, suggesting that “neither this body can live without Christ, neither can any man grow up spiritually, which seperateth himself from the other members.” Downame echoes...

... the Geneva Bible was the most popular, and the King James version increasingly so, over the course of the seventeenth century. For a comprehensive catalogue, see Arthur Sumner Herbert, ed., Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible, 1525 –   1 961 (New York: American...

...- trated Beatus Commentaries on the Apocalypse and Study of the Geneva Bea- tus. Edited by Therese Martin. Late Antique and Early Medieval Iberia, vol. . Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp.; color and black- and- white plates, map, genealogy. 3. Biographical studies Bradley...

... (Geneva, 1582), 431. 22 See the following by Anthony Grafton: “Joseph Scaliger et l'histoire du judaïsme hellénistique,” in La République des lettres et l'histoire du judaïsme antique: XVIe–XVIIIe siècles , ed. Chantal Grell and François Laplanche (Paris: Presses de l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne...

.... Madeleine and Catherine Des Roches. Les Missives. Edited by Anne R. Larson. Textes Littéraires Français 515. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1999. 448 pp.; 3 illus. Paper. Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, conte. Malvasia’s “Life of the Carracci”: Commen- tary and Translation...

... and Theology of the Marian Exiles at Geneva, 1555–1560 (New York: Peter Lang, 1999), 103–34. It is beyond the scope of this special issue to examine the breadth of sources that informed Marian literature, but recent work on this includes William Wizeman, “The Marian Counter-Reformation in Print,” in Catholic...