A General View of the History of the English Bible
Author | : Brooke Foss Westcott (Bishop of Durham.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1872 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Brooke Foss Westcott (Bishop of Durham.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : B. F. Westcott |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1997-11-12 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1725207362 |
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 |
Total Pages | : 642 |
Release | : 2020-08-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0143111205 |
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 | : James Midwinter Freeman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Bible |
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Author | : David Norton |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 526 |
Release | : 2000-05-29 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9780521778077 |
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 | : Debora Shuger |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2022-04-21 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 0192843575 |
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 | : Robert Armstrong |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004347976 |
The English Bible in the Early Modern World addresses the most significant book available in the English language in the centuries after the Reformation, and investigates its impact on popular religion and reading practices, and on theology, religious controversy and intellectual history between 1530 and 1700. Individual chapters discuss the responses of both clergy and laity to the sacred text, with particular emphasis on the range of settings in which the Bible was encountered and the variety of responses prompted by engagement with the Scriptures. Particular attention is given to debates around the text and interpretation of the Bible, to an emerging Protestant understanding of Scripture and to challenges it faced over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.