文档介绍：A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH BIBLE
AS LITERATURE
Revised and condensed from David Norton’s acclaimed History of
the Bible as Literature, this book tells the story of English literary atti-
tudes 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 hap-
pened 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.
is Reader in English at Victoria University of
Wellington, New Zealand, specializing in the Bible and literature,
and the English novel. Author of A History of the Bible as Literature,
vols. (), he is a member of the Tyndale Society Advisory Board
and serves on the General Advisory Board of Reformation.
Volumes published in the series
A History of the Bible as Literature
Volume One: From Antiquity to
by
: hardback
A History of the Bible as Literature
Volume Two: From to the Present Day
by
: hardback
A History of the English Bible as Literature
by
: hardback
; paperback
A HISTORY
OF THE
ENGLISH BIBLE AS
LITERATURE
DAVID NORTON
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
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