Contents

Contributors

Introduction

Comparing the ‘Telegraph Bible’ of the Late British Empire to the Chaotic Bible of the Sixteenth Century Spanish Empire: Beyond the Canaan Mandate into Anxious Parables of the Land

The Esperança de Israel: A Mission to Cromwell

Mare Clausum, Leviathan, and Oceana: Bible Criticism, Secularisation and Imperialism in Seventeenth-Century English Political and Legal Thought

The Armies of Gog, the Merchants of Tarshish, and the British Empire

The ‘Jerusalemgangers’ as an Illustration of Resistance against the British Empire and Nineteenth Century Biblical Interpretation in Southern Africa

The Battle of the Books: The Bible versus the Vedas

Index of Biblical References