Jan 4, 2010

A History of the Bible as Literature | A History of the Bible as Literature

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Author: David Norton
First Published: 1993
Type of Work: History of ideas; literary history
Genres: Nonfiction, History
Subjects: Culture, Language or languages, Literature, Religion, God, Christianity, Bible, biblical imagery, or biblical symbolism, Great Britain

In January, 1604, several months after his accession to the English throne, James I convened a conference of churchmen and scholars at London’s Hampton Court “for the hearing, and for the determining, [of] things pretended to be amiss in the Church.” At this conference, John Reynolds, a leading scholar and head of Oxford’s Corpus Christi College, proposed a new translation of the Bible. Shortly thereafter; with James’s approval, a committee of translators was formed, with a list of fifteen rules to guide their work. The completed translation, published in 1611, is known as the...

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A History of the Bible as Literature | A History of the Bible as Literature

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