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Manifold Greatness: The Making of the King James Bible (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781851243495)
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xPublished to commemorate the four hundredth anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, Manifold Greatness tells the story of the creation and immediate afterlife of the King James translation of the Bible, first published in 1611. Revolutionary at its time, the King James translation quickly became the dominant authorized translation of the Christian Bible in English. There are more than one billion copies in print, making it the best-selling book of all time, and its effect on the English language is incalculable, both in common speech and in literature.
This accessible and richly illustrated visual history contains eighty color illustrations, including images of rare manuscripts, artifacts, and archival material such as the annotated Bodleian Bishops' Bible of 1602, pages from the Wycliffite and Tyndale Bibles, and an edition of the Bishop's Bible owned by Elizabeth I. Eight chapters contributed by leading academics in the field discuss the history of biblical translation, the political background of the project, the Oxford Translators--including Henry Savile, John Rainolds, and John Harmar--and their working milieu, the cultural politics, and the reception and influence of the King James Bible up until the 1769 publication of the Oxford Standard Edition, which was the first revision of the original 1611 translation. Also included is a look at the later reception of the King James Bible in America, including a chapter specifically on the King James Bible and the Folger Shakespeare Library.Manifold Greatness brings together key research and documentation to provide a lively and comprehensive visual account to celebrate one of the most important occasions in publishing and modern religious history.
Author: Helen Moore
ISBN-10: 1851243496
ISBN-13: 9781851243495
Publisher: Bodleian Library
Language: English
Published: 05/15/2011
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 9.70h x 7.10w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Review of Books 02/09/2012 pg. 40
Choice 02/01/2012
By Helen Moore
xHelen Moore is a fellow and tutor in English at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and a lecturer in the faculty of English at the University of Oxford. She has edited the sixteenth-century romance Amadis de Gaule and the seventeenth-century play Guy of Warwick, and is co-editor of the forthcoming collection of essays, Classical Literary Careers and their Reception.Julian Reid is an archivist at Merton and Corpus Christi Colleges, Oxford. He has co-edited A Guide to the Merton Blackwell Collection and contributed to Het Zeekarten Boek.
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