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The essays in Biblical women in early modern literary culture, 1550-1700 draw attention to the complex ways in which biblical women's narratives could be reimagined for a variety of rhetorical and religious purposes. What they reveal is that there is no uniformity in early modern readings of biblical women; instead, Scripture's female figures are fluidly negotiated and diversely redeployed to offer (conflicting) comments on issues including female authority, women's speech, motherhood and sexuality. But the invocation of the Bible's women in gendered debates sits, many contributors suggests, alongside their multifarious deployment in discourses on monarchy and doctrine, discussions of travel and grief and disputes over confessional politics. 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