Bible: The Story of the King James Version
Author:   Gordon Campbell (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Leicester University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199693016


Pages:   370
Publication Date:   11 August 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gordon Campbell (Professor of Renaissance Studies, Leicester University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.384kg
ISBN:  

9780199693016


ISBN 10:   0199693013
Pages:   370
Publication Date:   11 August 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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A fascinating read. * Church of England Newspaper * [A] beautifully crafted book. * New Statesman *


<br>Gordon Campbell's BIBLE received a review in the August 2011 issue of CHOICE, where the reviewer said, All told, Campbell's flair for the interesting anecdote and careful painting of context makes this an informative, compelling biography for both scholars and general readers of the premiere English Bible. <br><p><br>


[A] beautifully crafted book. New Statesman A fascinating read. Church of England Newspaper


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Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Leicester University. An authority on Renaissance literature, he is the co-author of John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Thomas N. Corns).

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