In the Beginning · the Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture by McGrath, Alister -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Acclaim for Alister McGrath'sIN THE BEGINNING ALSO BY ALISTER McGrATH CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. UNKNOWN TO THE ANCIENTS: THE NEW TECHNOLOGY

The Social Revolution:The New Middle Class JOHANNES GUTENBERG AND THE ORIGINS OF PRINTING THE FIRST PRINTED BIBLES A Vernacular Bible:The Wycliffite Versions

2. THE RISE OF ENGLISH AS A NATIONAL LANGUAGE

3. THE GREAT TUMULT: THE REFORMATION

THE RISE OF INDIVIDUALISM MARTIN LUTHER: PIONEER OF REFORM THE INDULGENCE CONTROVERSY TRANSLATION AND POWER: THE REFORMATION AND THE VERNACULAR THE PRESSURE FOR TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE HENRY VIII AND THE ENGLISH REFORMATION

4. THE FIRST PRINTED ENGLISH BIBLES

THE PIONEER: WILLIAM TYNDALE TYNDALE'S NEW TESTAMENT: PRECURSOR OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE THE ATTEMPT TO SUPPRESS TYNDALE'S TRANSLATION THE FIRST PRINTED ENGLISH BIBLES AN OFFICIAL ENGLISH BIBLE: THE GREAT BIBLE OF 1539

5. EXPLAINING THE “HARD PLACES”: THE GENEVA BIBLE

THE REFORMATION OF GENEVA JOHN CALVIN AND GENEVA RELIGIOUS REFUGEES AND THE GENEVAN ECONOMY THE BIBLE: TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETATION THE GENEVA BIBLE THE INITIAL ELIZABETHAN RESPONSE TO THE GENEVA BIBLE THE TRIUMPH OF THE GENEVA BIBLE

6. A PURITAN KING? THE ACCESSION OF KING JAMES

THE FAULT LINES: TENSIONS WITHIN LATE ELIZABETHAN PROTESTANTISM THE SUCCESSION: FROM ELIZABETH I TO JAMES I THE NEW KING: A CRITIC OF PURITANISM THE NEW KING: AN ENEMY OF THE GENEVA BIBLE

7. THE DECISION TO TRANSLATE THE HAMPTON COURT CONFERENCE

THE LOBBYING BEGINS: THE PURITAN PETITION RICHARD BANCROFT: ARCHBISHOP IN WAITING THE HAMPTON COURT CONFERENCE THE DECISION: A NEW TRANSLATION BY ROYAL AUTHORITY IN THE MEANTIME: JAMES I, 1604–11

8. TRANSLATION: THE ENGLISHING OF THE BIBLE

Richard Bancroft's Translation Rules STANDING ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS: THE ROLE OF EARLIER ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS THE SIX COMPANIES OF TRANSLATORS

THE FIRST WESTMINSTER COMPANY THE FIRST CAMBRIDGE COMPANY THE FIRST OXFORD COMPANY THE SECOND OXFORD COMPANY THE SECOND WESTMINSTER COMPANY THE SECOND CAMBRIDGE COMPANY

THE TRANSLATION PROCESS THE TRANSLATORS TO THE READER: THE PREFACE

9. PRODUCTION:THE EARLY PRINTINGS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

THE KING'S PRINTER: THE ROYAL PRIVILEGE THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE FIRST PRINTING THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT IN THE FIRST PRINTING ERRORS IN EARLY PRINTINGS OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

10. TRANSLATORS AND TRAITORS: THE PROBLEMS OF BIBLE TRANSLATION

THE COMPONENTS OF THE BIBLE

THE OLD TESTAMENT THE APOCRYPHA

Article VI

THE NEW TESTAMENT

HEBREW AND ARAMAIC: SOME ISSUES OF TRANSLATION

IDIOMS RARE WORDS THE DIVINE NAME

NEW TESTAMENT GREEK: SOME ISSUES OF TRANSLATION THE GOSPELS: THE SYNOPTIC ISSUE THE TEXT TO BE TRANSLATED POETRY IN THE BIBLE WHAT IS TRANSLATION ANYWAY?

11. THE BIBLE AND THE SHAPING OF MODERN ENGLISH

DOUAI-RHEIMS KING JAMES BIBLE

HEBREW IDIOMS IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE ARCHAIC ENGLISH FORMS IN THE KING JAMES BIBLE

1. ‘THOU AND’ ‘YOU’

GENESIS 40:12–14 LUKE 4:5–8 ACTS 24:1–4 WILLIAM TYNDALE (1525) KING JAMES BIBLE (1611)

2. ‘SAYETH’ OR ‘SAYS’? THE VERBAL ENDINGS 3. ‘HIS’ AND ‘ITS’

12. TRIUMPH: THE FINAL ACCLAMATION OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE

EARLY REACTIONS THE BATTLE OF THE BIBLES: CHARLES I AND THE WAR AGAINST THE GENEVA BIBLE AMBIVALENCE: THE PURITAN COMMONWEALTH RESTORATION: THE FINAL ACCEPTANCE OF THE KING JAMES BIBLE THE KING JAMES BIBLE IN AMERICA THE FIRST PRINTED AMERICAN BIBLES

AFTERWORD

THE TRANSPARENCY OF THE TEXT THE POWER OF RELIGIOUS PROSE TAMING THE TEXT: NAUGHTY WORDS AND A PRUDISH CULTURE THE DEMAND FOR REVISION CONCLUSION

A Comparison of Historic English Translations: Psalm 23

WYCLIFFITE BIBLE, C. 1384 COVERDALE BIBLE; 1535 MATTHEW'S BIBLE, 1537 GREAT BIBLE, 1539 GENEVA BIBLE; 1560 BISHOPS BIBLE, 1568 DOUAI OLD TESTAMENT, 1609–10 KING JAMES BIBLE, 1611 REVISED STANDARD VERSION, 1952

A BIBLICAL TIMELINE LIST OF WORKS CONSULTED