Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments vii
3. Contents ix
4. Illustrations xi
5. Note on Citations xii
6. Introduction 1
7. Chapter One. Two Hundred Years of Biblical Violence 10
8. Chapter Two. Good Bible News 34
9. Chapter Three. Salvation, Reading, and Textual Hatred 68
10. Chapter Four. The Literal Sense and Predestination 106
11. Chapter Five. Bible Reading, Persecution, and Paranoia 142
12. Chapter Six. History as Error 184
13. Chapter Seven. Thomas More and Textual Trust 222
14. Chapter Eight. The Tragic Scene of Early Modern Reading 260
15. Abbreviations 284
16. Notes 285
17. Index 341