| English Bible Versions: A Tercentenary Memorial of the King James Version, from the New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society Contributor(s): Barker, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108024548 ISBN-13: 9781108024549 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - New Testament - General - Literary Collections - History |
| Dewey: 220.520 |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection: Religion (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.08 lbs) 388 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |