The King James Bible 1611 2011

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 1619020106
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Books written by Melvyn Bragg and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The King James Bible has often been called the "Book of Books," both in itself and in what it stands for. Since its publication in 1611, it has been the best–selling book in the world, and many believe, it has had the greatest impact. The King James Bible has spread the Protestant faith. It has also been the greatest influence on the enrichment of the English language and its literature. It has been the Bible of wars from the British Civil War in the seventeenth century to the American Civil War two centuries later, and it has been carried into battle in innumerable conflicts since then. Its influence on social movements—particularly involving women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and politics was profound. It was crucial to the growth of democracy. It was integral to the abolition of slavery, and it defined attitudes to modern science, education, and sex. As Lord Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English explored the history of our language, so The Book of Books reveals the extraordinary and still–felt impact of a work created 400 years ago.

Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0060838736
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Secretaries written by Adam Nicolson and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness," specifically the English language itself, had come into its first passionate maturity. The English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own scope than any form of the language before or since. It drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199557608
Total Pages : 1520 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King James Bible written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 1520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oxford is proud to publish a limited edition of the 1611 text of the King James Bible, with real leather binding, gilt edging, ribbon marker, gift presentation plate, and protective cloth slipcase. This is the most authoritative edition of the King James Bible available. The text of the 1611 edition differs from modern editions of the King James Version in thousands of details, and this edition is the most authentic version of the original text that has ever been published. It follows the 1611 text page-for-page and line-for-line, reproducing all misprints rather than correcting them. The volume also reprints the large body of preliminary matter, which includes genealogies, maps, and lists of readings, as well as the translator's preface to the reader. The text features an easy-to-read modern font instead of the black-letter type of the original, with the exception of the original decorative letters and early page ornaments, which have been reproduced. The volume concludes with an essay by Renaissance Studies expert, Gordon Campbell, on the first edition of the King James Bible. This beautiful Anniversary Edition is an elegant keepsake as well as a marvelous gift for anyone interested in the Bible.

Author : Helen Dale Moore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781851243495
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manifold Greatness written by Helen Dale Moore and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of two exhibitions, held in 2011 at the Bodleian Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library respectively, celebrating the 400th centenary of the publication of the King James Bible.

Author : Daisy Hay
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0747586276
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Romantics written by Daisy Hay and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A striking literary biography by a significant and talented young writer

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199591032
Total Pages : 507 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Milton written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of Milton based on original research for 40 years, and first to take account of new thinking about 17th-century England. Milton is seen here as flawed, passionate, ruthless, and ambitious, as well as one of the most accomplished writers of the time and author of the most influential narrative poem in English.

Author : David G. Burke
Publisher : Society of Biblical Lit
ISBN 13 : 1589837991
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King James Version at 400 written by David G. Burke and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2013-10-14 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kent P. Jackson
Publisher : Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center
ISBN 13 : 9780842528023
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King James Bible and the Restoration written by Kent P. Jackson and published by Brigham Young University Religious Studies Center. This book was released on 2011 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several scholars explore the KJV's origins, the texts from which it was translated, the major characters involved in its creation, and its story to the present. They also address the relationship between the King James Bible and the scriptures of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as well as the KJV's lasting legacy in Mormonism.

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199557594
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bible written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated with reproductions from early editions of the King James Bible, Bible: The Story of the King James Version offers an authoritative history of this renowned translation, ranging from the Bible's inception to the present day. --from publisher description.

Author : David Lyle Jeffrey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781602584167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King James Bible and the World it Made written by David Lyle Jeffrey and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / David Lyle Jeffrey --The "opening of windows" : the King James Bible and late Tudor translation theories / Alister E. McGrath --Translating majesty : the King James Bible, John Milton, and the English Revolution / Laura L. Knoppers --The King James Bible in Britain from the late eighteenth century / David W. Bebbington --The King James version at 300 in America : "the most democratic book in the world" / Mark Noll --The King James Bible, mission, and the vernacular impetus / Lamin Sanneh --Regions Luther never knew : ancient books in a new world / Philip Jenkins --The question of eloquence in the King James version / Robert Alter --The Word that enjureth forever : a century of scholarship on the King James version / Beth Allison Barr.