Author: Robert Gell
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 860

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Author: Charles Hodge
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600

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Author: Joseph Barber Lightfoot
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Author: David Norton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521778077
Category : Bibles
Languages : en
Pages : 526

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Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book, first published in 2000, tells the story of English literary attitudes to the Bible. At first jeered at and mocked as English writing, then denigrated as having 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation', the King James Bible somehow became 'unsurpassed in the entire range of literature'. How so startling a change happened and how it affected the making of modern translations such as the Revised Version and the New English Bible is at the heart of this exploration of a vast range of religious, literary and cultural ideas. Translators, writers such as Donne, Milton, Bunyan and the Romantics, reactionary Bishops and radical students all help to show the changes in religious ideas and in standards of language and literature that created our sense of the most important book in English.

Author: Jacob Isidor Mombert
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Alan Cadwallader
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567673472
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the political manoeuvres involved in the translation of a sacred book. Cadwallader reveals how the public avowal of unity and fraternal harmony that accompanied the public release and marketing of the New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in 1885, masks fraught historical realities that threatened the realization of the project from the beginning. Through a thorough examination of private correspondence, notebooks kept by various members of the New Testament Revision Companies in England and the United States, and other previously unstudied primary sources, Cadwallader examines and presents the complexities of the political situation surrounding the translation. He exposes the competing interests of an imperial, sovereign nation and a seriously divided Established Church floundering over its continued relevance; the ambitions and significance of Nonconformity in a nation's highly contested religious environment; the agonistic conflicts that erupted from assertions of national and international prestige and responsibilities; and the ultimate control exercised by publishing houses that fundamentally flawed the process of revision and the public acceptance of the final product.

Author: Samuel McComb
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Charles James STEWART (Bookseller.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521768276
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 377

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Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.

Author: John Lewis
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 452

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