Gordon Campbell (Leicester Univer Professor of Renaissance Studies

Bible

The Story of the King James Version

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Produktbeschreibung

A history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. It explains how the translation came to be commissioned and who the translators were, before tracing its textual history, and the responses it has provoked to the present day.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9780199693016
• ISBN-10: 0199693013
• Artikelnr.: 33253267

Autorenporträt

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Leicester University. An authority on Renaissance literature, he is the co-author of John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Thomas N. Corns).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: The Bible in English
2: The Commissioning of the KJV
3: Translators and Translating
4: The Translation
5: The First Edition
6: The Seventeenth Century
7: The Eighteenth Century
8: The Nineteenth Century
9: The Bible in America
10: The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles
11: The Revised Version
12: The Early Twentieth Century
13: The KJV in the Modern World
Appendix 1: The Companies and Later Revisers
Appendix 2: The Preliminaries to the KJV
Further Reading
Index