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Author: B. F. Westcott Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725207362 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 376
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An excellent history of the English Bible, including a systematic inquiry into the internal history of the Authorized Version indicating its composite character.
Author: B. F. Westcott Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1725207362 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 376
Book Description
An excellent history of the English Bible, including a systematic inquiry into the internal history of the Authorized Version indicating its composite character.
Author: John Barton Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0143111205 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 642
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A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth, variety, and richness of this fascinating text. In A History of the Bible, John Barton argues that the Bible is not a prescription to a complete, fixed religious system, but rather a product of a long and intriguing process, which has inspired Judaism and Christianity, but still does not describe the whole of either religion. Barton shows how the Bible is indeed an important source of religious insight for Jews and Christians alike, yet argues that it must be read in its historical context--from its beginnings in myth and folklore to its many interpretations throughout the centuries. It is a book full of narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems, and letters, each with their own character and origin stories. Barton explains how and by whom these disparate pieces were written, how they were canonized (and which ones weren't), and how they were assembled, disseminated, and interpreted around the world--and, importantly, to what effect. Ultimately, A History of the Bible argues that a thorough understanding of the history and context of its writing encourages religious communities to move away from the Bible's literal wording--which is impossible to determine--and focus instead on the broader meanings of scripture.
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: David Beale Publisher: BJU Press ISBN: 9780890841495 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 73
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Photos of ancient manuscripts and a rich collection of biographical and historical information make A Pictorial History of Our English Bible a helpful resource for literacy in Bible history. A Pictorial History provides a remarkable time-line perspective of how the Lord preserved and propagated his Word, blessing generations of English speakers, illuminating the darkness of the Middle Ages, and bursting forth with life-giving power. What began as a flicker became an unquenchable flame, igniting the hearts of God's people in revival and reformation. - Back cover.
Author: Debora Shuger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192843575 Category : Bible Languages : en Pages : 362
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English bibles, from Tyndale's 1525 New Testament to the 1611 King James, feature calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prayers, philological glosses, inset historical essays, elaborate multi-page diagrams, single-leaf summaries of scripture, prefaces by eminent churchmen, doctrinal notes by leading theologians, a dialogue on predestination, a twelfth-century genealogy of Christ, a ninth-century Jewish chronicle--most widely available, given the hundreds of editions printed between those dates. This book explores this archive, but it also tracks its changes, because while biblical translations remain relatively stable over time, the paratexts cocooning a bible's first printing sometimes mutate or vanish in succeeding editions--and indeed sometimes they migrate to a competing bible. These paratexts, together with their revelatory print histories, disclose a picture of the English Reformation that differs in striking ways from the authorized version.
Author: Alfred W. Pollard Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1579107575 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 401
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