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Title Labourers in the vineyard of the Lord : scholarship and the making of the King James version of the Bible / edited by Mordechai Feingold
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2018

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Series Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions ; volume 22
History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 22.
Contents 1. Birth and early reception of a masterpiece : some loose ends and common misconceptions / Mordechai Feingold -- 2. Lambeth Palace Library in 1611 and its contribution to Christian Hebraism / James P. Carley -- 3. Early Oxford Hebraism and the King James translators (1586-1617) : the view from New College / William Poole -- 4. Edward Lively, comsopolitan Hebraist / Anthony Grafton -- 5. John Rainolds : critic and translator / Mordechai Feingold -- 6. The Hebraic explorations of the English mercier : Richard Kilbie (1560/61-1620) / Joanna Weinberg -- 7. The earliest know draft of the King James Bible : Samuel Ward's draft of 1 Esdras and Wisdom 3-4 / Jeffrey Alan Miller -- 8. Revising the King James Apocrypha : John Bois, Isaac Casaubon, and the case of 1 Esdras / Nicholas J.S. Hardy -- 9. Miles Smith (1552/53-1624) and the uses of oriental learning / Thomas Roebuck -- 10. Audience and error : translation, philology, and rhetoric in the preaching of Lancelot Andrewes / Alison Knight
Summary The centrality of the King James Bible to early modern culture has been widely recognized. Yet for all the vast literature devoted to the masterpiece, little attention has been paid either to the scholarly scaffolding of the translation or to the erudition of the translators. The present volume seeks to redress this neglect by focusing attention on seven key translators as well as on their intellectual milieu. Utilizing a wide range of hitherto unknown or overlooked sources, the volume furnishes not only precious new information regarding the composition and early reception of the King James Bible, but firmly situates the labours of the translators within the broad context of early modern biblical and oriental scholarship and polemics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Bible. English -- Versions -- Authorized -- History
Bible. fast (OCoLC)fst01356024
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Bibel King James version gnd
Subject BIBLES -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- General.
RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Handbooks.
Englisch
Hebraistik
Methode
Übersetzung
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Feingold, Mordechai, editor.
LC no. 2018003261
ISBN 9789004359055
9004359052