In Discordance with the Scriptures : American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible.
The 19th-century American Bible revision movement's goal was the uniting of English-speaking Protestants behind one improved version of the Bible. Ironically, this resulted in a proliferation of English editions and an enduring polarization of American Christians over versions of holy writ.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1999.
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Colección: | OUP E-Books.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Abbreviations; Introduction: Sharper Than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern American Protestantism; 1. The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the Consecration of the English Bible; 2. Coronation of "King Truth": Bible Revision and the Late-Nineteenth-Century Imagination; 3. Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the Making of the RSV Bible; 4. The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture; 5. The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an Undefiled Book.