Klappentext Explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas contained in the King James Bible. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2000! explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas! explaining how the King James Bible went from being mocked as English writing to being 'unsurpassed in the entire range of literature'. It studies Bible translators! writers such as Milton and Bunyan! and a fascinating range of critics and commentators. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Creators of English; 2. From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language; 3. The King James Bible; 4. Literary implications of Bible presentation; 5. The struggle for acceptance; 6. The Psalter in verse and poetry; 7. The eloquentest book in the world'; 8. Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan; 9. The early eighteenth century and the KJB; 10. Mid-century; 11. The critical rise of the KJB; 12. Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics; 13. Literary discussion to mid-victorian times; 14. The revised version; 15. 'The Bible as literature'; 16. The later reputation of the KJB; 17. The New English Bible.

Klappentext

Explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas contained in the King James Bible.

Zusammenfassung
This book, first published in 2000, explores 500 years of religious and literary ideas, explaining how the King James Bible went from being mocked as English writing to being 'unsurpassed in the entire range of literature'. It studies Bible translators, writers such as Milton and Bunyan, and a fascinating range of critics and commentators.

Inhalt

1. Creators of English; 2. From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language; 3. The King James Bible; 4. Literary implications of Bible presentation; 5. The struggle for acceptance; 6. The Psalter in verse and poetry; 7. The eloquentest book in the world'; 8. Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan; 9. The early eighteenth century and the KJB; 10. Mid-century; 11. The critical rise of the KJB; 12. Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics; 13. Literary discussion to mid-victorian times; 14. The revised version; 15. 'The Bible as literature'; 16. The later reputation of the KJB; 17. The New English Bible.