The Bible in English /
The greatest of the earlier translators of the Bible into English, William Tyndale, was martyred in 1536 for his work. Immediately after him, however, translations proliferated: the whole Bible, or significant parts, has now been translated into English from its original Greek and Hebrew more than t...
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
[2022]
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- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- PART I BEFORE PRINTING
- 2 The Bible in Britain from the Earliest Times to AD 850
- 3 The Anglo-Saxon Bible, 850-1066
- 4 Romance and Piety, 1066-1350
- 5 The Wyclif ('Lollard') Bibles
- 6 Before and After Wyclif: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
- PART 2 AFTER PRINTING
- 7 The Greek New Testament of Erasmus, 1516 and After
- 8 The Reformation in England
- 9 William Tyndale ?1494-1536
- 10 After Tyndale
- 11 Coverdale's Bible, 1535
- 12 'Matthew's' Bible, 1537
- 13 The Great Bible, 1539
- 14 Towards the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553
- 15 An English Plain Style, and Bible Reading
- 16 The Geneva New Testament, 1557
- 17 The Geneva Bible, 1560
- 18 Reformation Psalms
- 19 The Bishops' Bible, 1568
- 20 Laurence Tomson and the Revision of the Geneva New Testament, 1576
- 21 The Rheims New Testament, 1582
- 22 'Geneva-Tomson-Junius', 1599
- 23 Explorers of the Revelation: Spenser and Shakespeare
- 24 The English Bible in America: From the Beginnings to 1640
- 25 The King James Version, 1611
- 26 Printing the King James Bible
- 27 The Bible in England in the Seventeenth Century
- 28 The Consolidation of KJY, 166o-1710
- 29 The Bible in England and Ireland, 1710-1760
- 30 More Psalms, and Hymns
- 31 The Bible in America to 1776
- 32 The English Bible against Fashionable Deism: Handel and Pope as Examples
- 33 The English Bible in America, 1777 to the Early Nineteenth Century
- 34 Towards 1769, and After
- 35 Mathew Carey and the American Bible Flood
- 36 The Nineteenth-Century Bible in Britain, and Two Artists
- 37 The English Revised Version, 1870-85
- 38 The English Bible in America, 1841-1899
- 39 Bible Translation into English in the Twentieth Century
- 40 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Chronological List of Bibles in English
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Photograph Credits