The Social Universe of the English Bible: Scripture, Society, and Culture in Early Modern EnglandHow can we explain the immense popularity of the English Bible? Naomi Tadmor argues that the vernacular Bible became so influential in early modern English society and culture not only because it was deeply revered, widely propagated, and resonant but also because it was at least in some ways Anglicised. She focuses in particular on the rendering into English of biblical terms of social description and demonstrates the emergence of a social universe