The Bible in English

David Daniell

Published by Yale University Press 2003

The Bible in English

David Daniell

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300183894

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About this book

The greatest of the earlier translators of the Bible into English, William Tyndale, was martyred in 1536 for his work. Immediately after him, however, translations proliferated: the whole Bible, or significant parts, has now been translated into English from its original Greek and Hebrew more than three thousand times. This major new book tells the extraordinary story of the Bible in England from approximately the fourth century, and its later translation into English in Britain and America to the present day.

Eminent scholar David Daniell charts the profound impact successive versions of the Bible have had on the people and communities that read them. He explains the work of major translators, the history of influential translations following Tyndale, including Coverdale’s, the Geneva Bibles and the King James Bible, and how greatly Americans have contributed in the late twentieth century, especially after the American Revised Standard Version.

Encompassing centuries of change—from a time when no one except priests had knowledge of the Bible beyond a few traditional stories mixed with saints’ lives, through later years when ordinary people were steeped in Biblical doctrine and language, to the present, when popular knowledge of the Bible, we are told, has disappeared—this eloquent book reveals how the endeavor of translating the Bible into English has changed religious practice, the arts, society, and the English language itself.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I BEFORE PRINTING
2 The Bible in Britain from the Earliest Times to AD 850 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3 The Anglo-Saxon Bible, 850-1066 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	44
4 Romance and Piety, 1066-1350 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
5 The Wyclif ('Lollard') Bibles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6 Before and After Wyclif: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
PART 2 AFTER PRINTING
7 The Greek New Testament of Erasmus, 1516 and After Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8 The Reformation in England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
9 William Tyndale ?1494-1536 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
10 After Tyndale Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
11 Coverdale's Bible, 1535 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
12 'Matthew's' Bible, 1537 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
13 The Great Bible, 1539 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
14 Towards the Reign of Edward VI, 1547-1553 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
15 An English Plain Style, and Bible Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	248
16 The Geneva New Testament, 1557 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
17 The Geneva Bible, 1560 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
18 Reformation Psalms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
19 The Bishops' Bible, 1568 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
20 Laurence Tomson and the Revision of the Geneva New Testament, 1576 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	348
21 The Rheims New Testament, 1582 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
22 'Geneva-Tomson-Junius', 1599 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
23 Explorers of the Revelation: Spenser and Shakespeare Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
24 The English Bible in America: From the Beginnings to 1640 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389
25 The King James Version, 1611 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427
26 Printing the King James Bible Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
27 The Bible in England in the Seventeenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	461
28 The Consolidation of KJY, 166o-1710 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	487
29 The Bible in England and Ireland, 1710-1760 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	499
30 More Psalms, and Hymns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	518
31 The Bible in America to 1776 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	539
32 The English Bible against Fashionable Deism: Handel and Pope as Examples Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	555
33 The English Bible in America, 1777 to the Early Nineteenth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	580
34 Towards 1769, and After Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	604
35 Mathew Carey and the American Bible Flood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	624
36 The Nineteenth-Century Bible in Britain, and Two Artists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	659
37 The English Revised Version, 1870-85 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683
38 The English Bible in America, 1841-1899 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	701
39 Bible Translation into English in the Twentieth Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	734
40 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	769
Appendix Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	775
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	794
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	795
Chronological List of Bibles in English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	843
Select Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	852
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	867
Photograph Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	900

Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Illustrations
- Other: 51 b/w illus.

eBook

Published: August 11, 2003
ISBN: 9780300183894