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Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 0521768276
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-02
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1316101924
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the King James version of the Bible. No other book has been as vital to the development of English writing or indeed to the English language itself. This major collection of essays is the most complete one-volume exploration of the King James Bible and its influence to date. The chapters are written by leading scholars from a range of disciplines, who examine the creation of the King James Bible as a work of translation and as a linguistic and literary accomplishment. They consider how it differed from the Bible versions which preceded it, and assess its broad cultural impact and precise literary influence over the centuries of writing which followed, in English and American literature, until today. The story will fascinate readers who approach the King James Bible from the perspectives of literary, linguistic, religious or cultural history.
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2011-01-05
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433524516
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1611, the King James Bible (KJB) remains the most recognizable piece of literature in the English-speaking world today. For over three centuries, it served as the standard English Bible and has, as such, exerted unparalleled influence on English and American culture in nearly every sphere—including education, law, literature, government, art, science, and religion. The Legacy of the King James Bible honors the 400th anniversary of the KJB’s publication by telling its story—a drama that starts with the pioneering work of William Tyndale and progresses through half a dozen other popular translations. Leland Ryken, an expert on the Bible as literature, explores the excellence of the King James Bible by examining its status as the climax of a century of English Bible translations, its impression on the subsequent history of Bible translation, its inherent literary excellence, and its overall impact on English and American literature and culture. The Legacy of the King James Bible will shed new light on the depth of the translation’s merit and influence and offer insight as to what its role may be in the next 400 years.
Author: David Norton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-01-10
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780521771009
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →David Norton re-edited the King James Bible for Cambridge, and this 2005 book arose from his intensive work on that project. Here he shows how the text of the most important Bible in the English language was made, and how, for better and for worse, it changed in the hands of printers and editors until, in 1769, it became the text we know today. Using evidence as diverse as the manuscript work of the original translators, and the results of extensive computer collation of electronically held texts, Norton has produced a scholarly edition of the King James Bible for the new century that will restore the authority of the 1611 translation. This book describes this fascinating background, explains Norton's editorial principles and provides substantial lists and tables of variant readings. It will be indispensable to scholars of the English Bible, literature, and publishing history.
Author: Gordon Campbell
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-10-28
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0191624799
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story of how this translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of how the translation was accomplished. The story does not end with the printing of that first edition, but introduces the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text. The present text of the King James Version differs in thousands of small details from the original edition. Campbell traces the textual history from 1611 to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford University Press in 1769. Attitudes to the King James Version have shifted through time and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. It is more widely read in America today than in any other country, and its particular history in there is given due attention. Generously illustrated with reproductions taken from early editions, this volume helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version throughout the world today.
Author: Mark Ward
Publisher: Lexham Press
Published: 2018-01-24
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1683590562
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today? The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years—and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.#In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"—and what we would call "the man on the street."
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher:
Published: 2014-06-09
Total Pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9781316100851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars chart the complex, multifaceted cultural impact of the King James Bible over its 400 years.
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Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 1999-01-01
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 0857861018
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The final book of the Bible, Revelation prophesies the ultimate judgement of mankind in a series of allegorical visions, grisly images and numerological predictions. According to these, empires will fall, the "Beast" will be destroyed and Christ will rule a new Jerusalem. With an introduction by Will Self.
Author: David G. Burke
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 1589837991
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this collection of essays, thirty scholars from diverse disciplines offer their unique perspectives on the genius of the King James Version, a translation whose 400th anniversary was recently celebrated throughout the English-speaking world. While avoiding nostalgia and hagiography, each author clearly appreciates the monumental, formative role the KJV has had on religious and civil life on both sides of the Atlantic (and beyond) as well as on the English language itself. In part 1 the essayists look at the KJV in its historical contexts—the politics and rapid language growth of the era, the emerging printing and travel industries, and the way women are depicted in the text (and later feminist responses to such depictions). Part 2 takes a closer look at the KJV as a translation and the powerful precedents it set for all translations to follow, with the essayists exploring the translators’ principles and processes (with close examinations of “Bancroft’s Rules” and the Prefaces), assessing later revisions of the text, and reviewing the translation’s influence on the English language, textual criticism, and the practice of translation in Jewish and Chinese contexts. Part 3 looks at the various ways the KJV has impacted the English language and literature, the practice of religion (including within the African American and Eastern Orthodox churches), and the broader culture. The contributors are Robert Alter, C. Clifton Black, David G. Burke, Richard A. Burridge, David J. A. Clines, Simon Crisp, David J. Davis, James D. G. Dunn, Lori Anne Ferrell, Leonard J. Greenspoon, Robin Griffith-Jones, Malcolm Guite, Andrew E. Hill, John F. Kutsko, Seth Lerer, Barbara K. Lewalski, Jacobus A. Naudé, David Norton, Jon Pahl, Kuo-Wei Peng, Deborah W. Rooke, Rodney Sadler Jr., Katharine Doob Sakenfeld, Harold Scanlin, Naomi Seidman, Christopher Southgate, R. S. Sugirtharajah, Joan Taylor, Graham Tomlin, Philip H. Towner, David Trobisch, and N. T. Wright.
Author: Jess Browning
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-10-28
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9781979132992
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The King James Version of the Bible has been compared to Martin Luther's Bible written about a hundred years earlier in German and was translated from Greek and Hebrew. The King James Bible was based on both Greek and other translations by others. This comparison and that they were both printed on the earlier printing press validates the comparisons. Since it's inception in 1611, the Bible has undergone three revisions with many words added. Luther had published his German translation of the New Testament in 1522, and he and his collaborators completed the translation of the Old Testament in 1534, when the whole Bible was published. Others had translated the Bible into German, but Luther tailored his translation to his own doctrine. He is dealing with the main point of Christian doctrine, namely, that we are justified by faith in Christ without any works of the Law. The King James Version, also known as the King James Bible or simply the Authorized Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. The books of the King James Version include the 39 books of the Old Testament, an intertestamental section containing 14 books of the Apocrypha (most of which correspond to books in the Vulgate Deuterocanon adhered to by Roman Catholics), and the 27 books of the New Testament. Protestant Bibles in the 16th century included the books of the Apocrypha - generally, following the Luther Bible. This book "Four Centuries of English Bible, 1611-2017" is written in celebration of the Reformation movement in Germany which took place 500 years ago. Martin Luther (1483-1546) was the name associated with the movement. He was an Augustinian monk and university lecturer in Wittenberg when he composed his "95 Theses," which protested the Catholic Pope's sale of reprieves from penance, or indulgences. This book was originally written by F. T. Tagg and was edited from the first edition in 1911 of the book titled "The Ter-century of the Authorized Version of the English Bible, 1611 -1911."
