A History of the Bible as Literature: From antiquity to 1700

Voorkant
Cambridge University Press, 1993 - 375 pagina's
It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first volume of David Norton's magisterial two-volume work surveys and analyses a comprehensive range of these ideas from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century, providing a unique view of the Bible and translation.
 

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List of plates
2
The early Christians and biblical eloquence
16
Jerome
23
I
44
5
53
Slaves of the Vulgate
77
Creators of English
90
77
97
12
172
13
210
The eloquentest books in the world
237
Versifying the Psalms
274
The best materials in the world for poesy
291
Appendix
313
Bibliography
349
General index
355

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104
From the Great Bible to the RheimsDouai Bible
114
10
139
Presentations of the text 15251625
164

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