Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611 — 2011
Campbell does not end with the printing of that first edition, but also traces the textual history from to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford University Press in , shedding light on the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text and bringing to life the controversies surrounding later revisions.
Bible: The Story of the King James Version, 1611-2011
In addition, the author examines the reception of the King James Version, showing how its popularity has shifted through time and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. Finally, the volume includes appendices that contain short biographies of the translators and a guide to the page preliminaries of the edition. A fitting tribute to the enduring popularity of the King James Version, Bible offers an illuminating history of this most esteemed of biblical translations.
The Bible in English 2.
The Commissioning of the KJV 3. Translators and Translating 4.
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The First Edition 6. The Seventeenth Century 7.
The Eighteenth Century 8. The Nineteenth Century 9.
The Bible in America The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles Personal tools Web Editor Log in. Search Site only in current section. The Story of the King James Version Information from the publisher's site: Brings to life the controversies surrounding later revisions, helping the reader to understand why and when new editions were issued. Investigates the varied reception of the King James Version across the world, particularly looking at its enduring popularity in America.
Lavishly illustrated with reproductions from early editions of the King James Bible and portraits of key players in its history.
Its translators may have been very brilliant, but they were also conservative and slightly out of touch, and Campbell is sceptical about the notion that their translation had a long-lasting impact on the English language. It was certainly the means by which various 16th- and 17th-century expressions, such as "salt of the earth" and "at their wits' end" survived through the centuries, but Campbell's account shows that the importance of the King James Version does not rest on its linguistic legacy.
It enabled 17th-century men and women to read the Bible in their own language, it remains at the heart of the English-speaking Christian tradition, and today it continues to be celebrated as one of the great works of English literature. For Gordon Campbell, though, its significance is finally more personal. Daisy Hay is the author of The Young Romantics: Topics History books The Observer.
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