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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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Autor principal: Daniell, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: 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