A Dictionary of the English Bible and its Origins

A Dictionary of the English Bible and its Origins
Author: Alec Gilmore
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2014-02-04
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135972028

The Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins is designed to increase awareness of the origins of the Bible; to introduce readers to the variety of versions and manuscripts that lie behind the familiar English translations;to provide, in alphabetical order, entries on texts, versions, manuscripts, persons, places and terminology, covering the origins of the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament and the English Bible, including the most recent translations; and generally to facilitate a more intelligent understanding of the Bible among lay people by removing some of the mystique and prejudices associated with it. Entries are factual, not evaluative, and reflect contemporary biblical scholarship. Dictionary of the English Bible and Its Origins will prove to be a handy reference tool for anyone with an interest in the Bible.

Book Notes

Book Notes
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1905
Genre: American literature
ISBN:

Consisting of literary gossip, criticisms of books and local historical matters connected with Rhode Island.

The North American Review

The North American Review
Author: Jared Sparks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 602
Release: 1862
Genre: American fiction
ISBN:

Vols. 277-230, no. 2 include Stuff and nonsense, v. 5-6, no. 8, Jan. 1929-Aug. 1930.

Thumb Bibles

Thumb Bibles
Author: Gottfried Adam
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2022-10-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9004525882

Thumb bibles are a previously unexplored genre of miniature books. This study examines them from a theological, literary, book-historical and pious perspective.

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700

The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, c. 1530-1700
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 951
Release: 2015-08-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0191510599

The Bible was, by any measure, the most important book in early modern England. It preoccupied the scholarship of the era, and suffused the idioms of literature and speech. Political ideas rode on its interpretation and deployed its terms. It was intricately related to the project of natural philosophy. And it was central to daily life at all levels of society from parliamentarian to preacher, from the 'boy that driveth the plough', famously invoked by Tyndale, to women across the social scale. It circulated in texts ranging from elaborate folios to cheap catechisms; it was mediated in numerous forms, as pictures, songs, and embroideries, and as proverbs, commonplaces, and quotations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of fields, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in Early Modern England, 1530-1700 explores how the scriptures served as a generative motor for ideas, and a resource for creative and political thought, as well as for domestic and devotional life. Sections tackle the knotty issues of translation, the rich range of early modern biblical scholarship, Bible dissemination and circulation, the changing political uses of the Bible, literary appropriations and responses, and the reception of the text across a range of contexts and media. Where existing scholarship focuses, typically, on Tyndale and the King James Bible of 1611, The Oxford Handbook of the Bible in England, 1530-1700 goes further, tracing the vibrant and shifting landscape of biblical culture in the two centuries following the Reformation.