Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 354 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
The Bible in English -- The commissioning of the King James Version -- Translators and translating -- The translation -- The first edition -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The Cambridge paragraph Bibles -- The Bible in America -- The Revised Version -- The early twentieth century -- The King James Version in the modern world -- Appendix 1 : the companies and later revisers -- Appendix 2 : the preliminaries to the KJV |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 314-332) and index |
SUBJECT |
Bible. English. Authorized -- History
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Bible. English. Authorized -- Criticism, Textual
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Bible -- Translating.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013724
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Bible fast |
Subject |
BIBLES -- King James Version -- General.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2010935040 |
ISBN |
9780191612725 |
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0191612723 |
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9780199557592 |
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0199557594 |
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019180665X |
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9780191806650 |
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