This volume was published in 1911 for the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society to celebrate the three hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible. The Rev. Henry Barker, described in the preface as 'a late presbyter of this church' but about whom little is known, gives a full historical account of the manuscript origins of the Bible, the development of the biblical canon and the early efforts, made by reformers such as Wyclif in the fourteenth century and Tyndale in the sixteenth, to translate the Bible into the vernacular and thus make its content more accessible to the laity. Barker provides a clear and factual account not only of the evolution of the Bible in English but also of the background of social and political change that fostered the various early translations.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-10-21
Mått140 x 216 x 22 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies
Antal sidor388
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108024549

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Preface; Introductory foreword; 1. What the Bible is; 2. A short statement as to the sixty-six books of Holy Scripture; 3. The fourteen books of the Apocrypha; 4. Manuscripts and versions; 5. The Septuagint; 6. The oldest existing Bible; 7. The Vulgate; 8. Quotations from early Christian writers; 9. Our Hebrew manuscripts of the Old Testament; 10. England's early efforts; 11. The first English Bible; 12. Revision of the Greek Text of the New Testament; 13. Early printed English Bibles; 14. The Council of Trent and the Authorized Bible of the Roman Church; 15. Later English Bibles of the sixteenth century; 16. The popular English Bible of the Roman Church; 17. The Authorized Version of 1611; 18. The need of further revision; 19. Further revision of the Greek text of the New Testament; 20. The Revised Version of 1881–1885; 21. Printers' errors; 22. The English Bible-Printing monopoly. The King's Printer, etc.; 23. The American Standard Edition of the Revised Version; 24. The Marginal Readings Bible; 25. Early American versions and prints; 26. The different authorities available for the various versions; 27. Concluding words; Appendix; Index.