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Title: The Bible in English: Its History and Influence by David Daniell ISBN: 0-300-09930-4 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: a mixture of interesting and silly
Comment: This book is worth reading for the subject, but if you are a Christian or an American (or both) the author can be tiresome. He's one of those Euro intellectuals who thinks everybody who reads a King James Version Bible is "stupid" (and he even finds a way to get in the usual, required George W. Bush, 'Texans are dumb' bashing). At the beginning of his chapter on the KJV, as well, he lists four or five points that need to be 'cleared up' before he proceeds, and he then proceeds to write things that are basically at the level of: "English was not the original language of the Bible." He also makes the strange claim that many, again, "stupid" KJV Bible-readers call the King James Version the "St. James Version" because, according to him, they are so dumb they think King James was a saint and that the King James translation was actually translated by King James I himself. Aside from the strangeness of the claim (though I havn't lived in all parts of the U.S. so maybe somebody somewhere refers to the King James Version as the St. James Version, though I've never heard it nor seen it in print) Protestants don't even usually use the word saint in that manner, it being Protestant doctrine that all saved (or regenerate) Christians are saints. Suffice it to say, in these areas (and in his puerile Euro-style America/Bible-believing Christian bashing) the author comes across as more than a little tedious. When you read these parts of this book it makes you doubt that the author is really capable of bringing anything of worth in the other parts of the book. (ps- Upon doing an internet search on 'St. James Version' it seems to be a common typo type mistake made by people who usually are not the most familiar with the Bible in any translation to begin with, including major American newspapers, and it is not, as the author suggests, a way that Texan Bible believers commonly refer to the KJV...)
Rating: 5
Summary: A superb work on a book that changed the world!
Comment: The bible in its different English language editions changed the world - from the Tyndale translation (written about by this author in his excellent earlier biography of Tyndale), through to the Geneva Bible read by many of the Puritans and thence to the King James Version that we all know and love today. Our concepts of freedom, our love for our own language and countless expressions that we take for granted are all derived from English language versions of the Bible. Read this splendid book and thank God for the wonderful work that translators have done over the centuries. Christopher Catherwood, author of CHRISTIANS MUSLISM AND ISLAMIC RAGE (Zondervan)...
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Title: God's Secretaries : The Making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicolson ISBN: 0060185163 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: William Tyndale: A Biography by David Daniell ISBN: 0300068808 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal by Brian Moynahan ISBN: 0312314868 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 23 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Tyndale's New Testament by William Tyndale, David Daniell ISBN: 0300065809 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: February, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: In the Beginning : The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language,and a Culture by Alister McGrath ISBN: 0385722168 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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