Travis DeCook is the co-editor of Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book (2011), and of Taking Exception to the Law (2015). He has published articles in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and Studies in Philology.

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• Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation; 1. The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment; 2. The extrinsic Bible: scriptural revelation, secularity, and social organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; 3. Scripture atomized: sovereignty, secularization, and the metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbe's Leviathan; 4. The trial of Scripture: John Milton, individual freedom, and the providential immanence of the Bible's textual history; 5. The religion of the state: Spinoza's reimagining of the Bibles origins and the interiorization of religion; Conclusion: the Bible and time.

Travis DeCook is the co-editor of Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book (2011), and of Taking Exception to the Law (2015). He has published articles in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and Studies in Philology.

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• Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation; 1. The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment; 2. The extrinsic Bible: scriptural revelation, secularity, and social organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; 3. Scripture atomized: sovereignty, secularization, and the metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbe's Leviathan; 4. The trial of Scripture: John Milton, individual freedom, and the providential immanence of the Bible's textual history; 5. The religion of the state: Spinoza's reimagining of the Bibles origins and the interiorization of religion; Conclusion: the Bible and time.

Travis DeCook is the co-editor of Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book (2011), and of Taking Exception to the Law (2015). He has published articles in journals such as Literature and Theology, Religion and Literature, and Studies in Philology.

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• Introduction: Eternal Word, Historical Artifact - Biblical Transcendence and Immanence in the Wake of Humanism and Reformation; 1. The Primordial Bible: William Tyndale's Social Vision and the Limits of Disenchantment; 2. The extrinsic Bible: scriptural revelation, secularity, and social organization in Francis Bacon's New Atlantis; 3. Scripture atomized: sovereignty, secularization, and the metaphysics of the Bible in Hobbe's Leviathan; 4. The trial of Scripture: John Milton, individual freedom, and the providential immanence of the Bible's textual history; 5. The religion of the state: Spinoza's reimagining of the Bibles origins and the interiorization of religion; Conclusion: the Bible and time.