Preface: The biblical reader and the shifting horizon of expectations
The prehistoric English Bible
In pursuit of a useful Bible : scriptural politics and the English Civil War
Cracking the foundations : biblical criticism and the Newtonian synthesis
Streamlined Scriptures : the demystification of the Bible
The occult Bible : aesthetization and the persistence of the supernatural
Divine copyright and the apotheosis of the author in eighteenth-century England
Ten little Israelites : counting out the Bible in Victorian England
Unsuitable paternity : Darwin, anthropology, and the evolutionist Bible
Conclusion: The end of a world and the beginning of fundamentalism.
