"An Ægyptian darknesse": pagan chronologies, historia sacra, and the hieroglyph in England, 1646-1690

• Published in: The Seventeenth century Vol. 36; no. 1; pp. 149 - 176
• Main Author: Pope, Stephanie
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Durham Routledge 02.01.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Egyptian civilization; Egyptian hieroglyph; English language; enlightenment; Historiography; Inscriptions; Judaica; Learning; Paganism & animism; proto-linguistics; religious historiography; Renaissance symbolism; secularisation; United Kingdom > UK; England

In this article I consider the depiction of the Egyptian hieroglyph in several seventeenth-century English religio-historiographical works that engage with the problems posed by the Egyptian dynastic records - records that challenged the validity of biblical chronology. Critical tradition has been k...