A History of the English Bible as LiteratureCambridge University Press, 29.05.2000 - 484 Seiten 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. |
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CREATORS OF ENGLISH | 1 |
ROLLES PSALTER AND THE WYCLIF BIBLE | 5 |
WILLIAM TYNDALE | 10 |
JOHN CHEKE AND THE INKHORN | 26 |
MYLES COVERDALE | 29 |
FROM THE GREAT BIBLE TO THE RHEIMSDOUAI BIBLE ARGUMENTS ABOUT LANGUAGE | 35 |
OPPOSING CAMPS | 39 |
DOES THE VERBAL FORM MATTER? | 53 |
THE KJB IN LITERARY DISCUSSIONS OF THE BIBLE | 251 |
REVISION OR SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION | 259 |
RANCOROUS REASON AND BROUHAHA | 262 |
WRITERS AND THE BIBLE 2 THE ROMANTICS | 272 |
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE POETIC GENIUS | 275 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW LITERARY SENSE OF THE BIBLE | 279 |
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND THE LIVING EDUCTS OF THE IMAGINATION | 281 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND SCRIPTURE AS A COMPOSITION | 287 |
THE KING JAMES BIBLE | 56 |
RULES TO MEET THE CHALLENGE | 60 |
THE PREFACE | 63 |
BOISS NOTES | 70 |
CONCLUSION | 72 |
BROUGHTONS LAST WORD | 73 |
LITERARY IMPLICATIONS OF BIBLE PRESENTATION | 76 |
JOHN LOCKES CRITICISM OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT | 87 |
THE STRUGGLE FOR ACCEPTANCE | 89 |
THE FAILURE OF REVISION | 94 |
QUOTING THE GOOD BOOK | 103 |
THE LITERARY RECEPTION | 107 |
THE PSALTER IN VERSE AND POETRY | 115 |
A GREAT PREJUDICE TO THE NEW | 121 |
VERSE EPITOMES OF THE BIBLE | 125 |
IDEAS OF BIBLICAL POETRY | 126 |
THE SIDNEY PSALMS | 128 |
GEORGE WITHER AND THE PSALTER | 131 |
THE ELOQUENTEST BOOKS IN THE WORLD | 140 |
DIVINE INSPIRATION | 147 |
JOHN DONNE | 150 |
CONQUERING THE CLASSICS | 152 |
CONFLICT OVER THE BIBLE AS A MODEL FOR STYLE | 156 |
THE BIBLE DISPUTED RHYMED SUNG AND JANGLED | 165 |
WIT ATHEISM AND THE SAD CASE OF THOMAS AIKENHEAD | 167 |
WRITERS AND THE BIBLE 1 MILTON AND BUNYAN | 174 |
JOHN MILTON | 175 |
JOHN BUNYAN | 183 |
THE EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND THE KING JAMES BIBLE | 188 |
JOHN HUSBANDS | 202 |
ANTHONY BLACKWALL | 207 |
A KIND OF STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE TO THE COMMON PEOPLE | 210 |
MIDCENTURY | 218 |
UNCOUTH HARSH AND OBSOLETE | 229 |
THE CRITICAL RISE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE | 242 |
LOWTH AND THE ENGLISH BIBLE | 245 |
MYTHS ARISE | 247 |
GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE KJB AS A LITERARY EXAMPLE | 249 |
LORD BYRON | 290 |
A BIBLE FOR THE ROMANTIC READER | 292 |
CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE KJB | 295 |
LITERARY DISCUSSION TO MIDVICTORIAN TIMES | 299 |
AN INSPIRED TRANSLATION | 309 |
THE KJB AS A LITERARY INFLUENCE | 312 |
PARALLELISM REVISITED | 319 |
GEORGE GILFILLAN AND THE LESSON OF INFINITE BEAUTY | 323 |
THE REVISED VERSION | 327 |
THE PREFACE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT | 332 |
EVIDENCE FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISERS | 335 |
AN ENGLISH ACCOUNT OF CHANGES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT | 336 |
THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISERS AT WORK | 339 |
THE RECEPTION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT | 341 |
THE PREFACE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT | 344 |
AN AMERICAN ACCOUNT OF CHANGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT | 347 |
NOTES FROM THE FIRST REVISION OF GENESIS | 349 |
CONCLUSION | 351 |
DIALECT VERSIONS | 352 |
THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE | 358 |
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND SCHOOL BIBLE READING | 363 |
MATTHEW ARNOLD | 368 |
RICHARD MOULTON AND LITERARY MORPHOLOGY | 371 |
ANTHOLOGISTS | 376 |
PRESENTING THE TEXT AS LITERATURE | 381 |
THE LATER REPUTATION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE | 387 |
FUNDAMENTALISTS AND THE GODGIVEN TRANSLATION | 397 |
MODERN AVOLATRY | 400 |
THE SHAKESPEAREAN TOUCH | 404 |
DISSENTING VOICES | 407 |
THE HEBREW INHERITANCE AND THE VIRTUES OF LITERALISM | 420 |
THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE | 430 |
RECEPTION | 439 |
A PRINCELY EPILOGUE | 452 |
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