A history of the Bible as literature: Volume one: From antiquity to 1700
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...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
1993
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| In: | Year: 1993 |
| Reviews: | BOOK REVIEWS (1995) (Watson, J. R.)
REVIEWS (1994) (Prickett, A. T. S.) |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible as literature
B Bible ; English ; Versions ; History B Bible English Versions History B Bible ; Criticism, interpretation, etc ; History B Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Print version: 9780521333986 |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016) |
| ISBN: | 0511621396 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511621390 |