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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      29 May 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511612251
      9780521771405
      9780521778077
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511612251
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.83kg, 524 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.705kg, 524 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Biblical Studies - New Testament, English Literature: General Interest, Religion
      Series:
      A History of the Bible as Literature
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    Literature, Biblical Studies - New Testament, English Literature: General Interest, Religion
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    A History of the Bible as Literature
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    Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book, first published in 2000, tells the story of English literary attitudes to the Bible. At first jeered at and mocked as English writing, then denigrated as having 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation', the King James Bible somehow became 'unsurpassed in the entire range of literature'. How so startling a change happened and how it affected the making of modern translations such as the Revised Version and the New English Bible is at the heart of this exploration of a vast range of religious, literary and cultural ideas. Translators, writers such as Donne, Milton, Bunyan and the Romantics, reactionary Bishops and radical students all help to show the changes in religious ideas and in standards of language and literature that created our sense of the most important book in English.

    Reviews

    ‘A most instructive and fascinating work.’

    Source: Expository Times

    ‘David Norton’s long book fills a large gap very well: so well, in fact, being comprehensive and especially well written, that one hears of it being recommended to classes, by default, as a history of translations. His story is remarkable. It is compelling reading as a study of literary positions in successive centuries.’

    Source: Reformation

    'The clarity and drive of Norton's own writing happily matches the fulness of his material: though too well-mannered to raise his voice, he successfully challenges the now-fashionable dismissal of the English Bible from history.'

    Source: Oxford Academic Journals

    ‘The clarity and drive of Morton’s writing happily matches the fulness of his material … he successfully challenges the now-fashionable dismissal of the English bible from history.’

    Source: The Journal of Theological Studies

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