How to Write Scripture: Words, Authority, and Politics in Thomas Hobbes

This paper has been given in a number of incarnations in different places. My thanks to the listeners and the questioners at each of them. I have also profited from discussing and defending it at length with my students Ted Miller, Keith Bybee (who provided invaluable research help at an early stage), and Alberto Pefiades. My friend J. Peter Euben gave generously of his learning and time to try to show me the error of my ways. My thanks to him, although I fear he was less successful than he might have wished.