UID:
almafu_9960119218502883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 493 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-511-62140-X
Series Statement:
History of the Bible As Literature ; v.2
Content:
Early-eighteenth-century literary critics thought the King James Bible had 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation'. But from the 1760s on criticism became increasingly favourable. In the nineteenth century it welled into a chorus of praise for 'the noblest monument of English prose'. This 1993 volume, the second of a two-volume work, traces how that reversal of opinion came about and helped to shape the making and reception of modern translations such as the Revised Version and the New English Bible. At the same time the story of the development of modern literary discussion of the Bible in general is told. From the Augustan discovery of Longinus' comments on Genesis through such major figures as Robert Louth to modern critics such as Frank Kermode and Robert Alter, this story reveals a fascinating world of insights and repetitions of received opinions. It shows not only how criticism has shaped understanding of the Bible, but how the Bible has shaped literary criticism.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- The early eighteenth century and the KJB -- 'All the disadvantages of an old prose translation' -- John Husbands -- Anthony Blackwall -- Revision canvassed -- The popular front -- Mid-century -- Religion and literature kept apart -- Robert Lowth's De Sacra Poesi Hebraeorum -- Uncouth, harsh and obsolete -- An aside: Higher Criticism -- The critical rise of the KJB -- The influence of popular feeling -- Lowth and the English Bible -- Myths arise -- The KJB as a literary example -- The KJB in literary discussions of the Bible -- Revision or 'superstitious veneration' -- Rancorous reason and brouhaha -- Romantics and the Bible -- Forerunners and the influence of the KJB -- William Wordsworth and the possibility of a new literary sense of the Bible -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Percy Bysshe Shelley and 'Scripture as a composition' -- An infidel and the Bible: Lord Byron -- A Bible for the romantic reader -- Charlotte Brontë and the influence of the KJB -- Literary discussion to mid-Victorian times -- The pious chorus -- An inspired translation -- Parallelism revisited -- Herder's theological aesthetic -- The KJB as a literary influence -- George Gilfillan and 'the lesson of infinite beauty' -- The Revised Version -- Rules for the revision -- The preface to the New Testament -- Evidence from the New Testament revisers -- An English account of changes in the New Testament -- The reception of the New Testament -- The preface to the Old Testament -- Noah Webster, obsolescence and euphemism -- Notes from the first revision of Genesis -- An American account of changes in the Old Testament -- Conclusion -- An aside: dialect versions -- 'The Bible as literature' -- The Bible 'as a classic': Le Roy Halsey -- The American Constitution and school Bible reading.
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Matthew Arnold -- Richard Moulton and literary morphology -- Presenting the text as literature -- The later reputation of the KJB -- Testimonies from writers -- Fundamentalists and the God-given translation -- Modern AVolatry -- The Shakespearean touch -- Dissenting voices -- The Hebrew inheritance and the virtues of literalism -- Narrative and unity: modern preoccupations -- Schweitzer, Strauss and the discovery of fiction -- Erich Auerbach -- Making the Bible into art, or the Bible as fiction -- A book or a ragbag? -- This (spiritual) treasure in earthen/earthenware/clay vessels/pots/jars -- Introduction: two kinds of translations -- A commercial break: the New King James Version -- The New English Bible -- A princely epilogue -- Appendix -- Isaiah 60. The KJB, Robert Lowth and John Husbands -- Job 41. The KJB and Anthony Purver -- Matthew 7. The KJB and Edward Harwood -- Benjamin Franklin: 'A Parable against Persecution' -- Bibliography -- General index -- Biblical index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-61701-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-33399-7
Language:
English
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