A History Of The Bible As Literature From Antiquity To 1700

Author : David Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521333986
Total Pages : 436 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature: From antiquity to 1700 written by David Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first volume of David Norton's magisterial two-volume work surveys and analyses a comprehensive range of these ideas from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century, providing a unique view of the Bible and translation.

Author : David Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521617000
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 1, From Antiquity to 1700 written by David Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-12-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication. The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first volume of David Norton's magisterial two-volume work surveys and analyses a comprehensive range of these ideas from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century, providing a unique view of the Bible and translation.

Author : David Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521333993
Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature written by David Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature written by David Norton and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Norton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521617017
Total Pages : 508 pages
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Download or read book A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 2, From 1700 to the Present Day written by David Norton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early eighteenth century literary critics thought the King James Bible had "all the disadvantages of an old prose translation." But from the 1760s on criticism became increasingly favorable. In the nineteenth century it swelled into a chorus of praise for "the noblest monument of English prose." This volume traces how that reversal of opinion came about. The story of the development of modern literary discussion of the Bible in general is told also, showing not only how criticism has shaped understanding of the Bible but how the Bible has shaped literary criticism.

Author : David Daniell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300099304
Total Pages : 964 pages
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Download or read book The Bible in English written by David Daniell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: P. 275-357 : les éditions genevoises au 16e siècle de la Bible en anglais.

Author : Yaacov Shavit
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110200937
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hebrew Bible Reborn written by Yaacov Shavit and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work, the first of its kind, describes all the aspects of the Bible revolution in Jewish history in the last two hundred years, as well as the emergence of the new biblical culture. It describes the circumstances and processes that turned Holy Scripture into the Book of Books and into the history of the biblical period and of the people – the Jewish people. It deals with the encounter of the Jews with modern biblical criticism and the archaeological research of the Ancient Near East and with contemporary archaeology. The middle section discusses the extensive involvement of educated Jews in the Bible-Babel polemic at the start of the twentieth century, which it treats as a typological event. The last section describes at length various aspects of the key status assigned to the Bible in the new Jewish culture in Europe, and particularly in modern Jewish Palestine, as a “guide to life” in education, culture and politics, as well as part of the attempt to create a new Jewish man, and as a source of inspiration for various creative arts.

Author : R. S. Sugirtharajah
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521005241
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible and the Third World written by R. S. Sugirtharajah and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-11 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Bible in the Third World.

Author : Petri Merenlahti
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567042613
Total Pages : 194 pages
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Download or read book Poetics for the Gospels? written by Petri Merenlahti and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetics, the study of the making of literary works, regards the gospels as literature, in contrast to the historical-critical approach. Petri Merenlahti makes the case that poetics offers a vital critical tool to interpreting the gospels. But he argues that poetics must also be 'historical', as perceptions of literary form and value are not fixed, but evolve and develop from one time and culture to another. Merenlahti provides a comprehensive account of the development and the state of the art of poetics and narrative criticsm. Through scrupulous methodological discussion and detailed analysis of gospel narratives, he also offers a potentially highly productive future programme for historical poetics in gospel studies.