English Bible Versions : A Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society
by
Henry Barker
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies
ISBN-10
1108024548
ISBN-13
9781108024549
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 21st, 2010
Print length
388 Pages
Weight
524 grams
Dimensions
14.40 x 21.40 x 2.50 cms
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A detailed history of the Bible in English, originally published to celebrate the tercentenary of the King James Version in 1911. This volume chronicles the history of the translations, with particular emphasis on the Authorized Version which has been influential in the English-speaking world for four centuries.
This volume was published in 1911 for the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible. The Rev. Henry Barker, described in the preface as 'a late presbyter of this church' but about whom little is known, gives a full historical account of the manuscript origins of the Bible, the development of the biblical canon and the early efforts, made by reformers such as Wyclif in the fourteenth century and Tyndale in the sixteenth, to translate the Bible into the vernacular and thus make its content more accessible to the laity. Barker provides a clear and factual account not only of the evolution of the Bible in English but also of the background of social and political change that fostered the various early translations.
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