A history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to thepresent day. It explains how the translation came to be commissioned and who the translators were, before tracing its textual history, and the responses ithas provoked to the present day. INDICE: Introduction; 1: The Bible in English; 2: The Commissioning of the KJV; 3: Translators and Translating; 4: The Translation; 5: The First Edition; 6: The Seventeenth Century; 7: The Eighteenth Century; 8: The Nineteenth Century; 9: The Bible in America; 10: The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles; 11: The Revised Version; 12: The Early Twentieth Century; 13: The KJV in the Modern World; Appendix 1: The Companies and Later Revisers; Appendix 2: The Preliminaries to the KJV; Further Reading; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-955759-2
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 368
- Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés