David Norton has recently re-edited the King James Bible for Cambridge. This two-volume set comprises his new edition of the KJV (with the Apocrypha), and an accompanying volume describing the historical background to that project, explaining his editorial principles and providing substantial lists and tables of variant readings. Modern KJVs have until now been based on the 1769 version, which contains many layers of changes made, both knowingly and unintentionally, by successive printers and editors. Using evidence as diverse as the manuscript work of the original translators, and the results of extensive computer collation of electronically held texts, Norton has carefully stripped away accretions and errors, and produced a scholarly edition of the King James Bible for the new century that will restore the authority of the 1611 translation. This two-volume set will be indispensable to scholars of the English Bible, literature, and publishing history.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"This scholarly work will likely be of great interest to historical scholars of the Bible, not to mention aficionados of the King James Version."
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10 Halftones, unspecified
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Höhe: 255 mm
Breite: 184 mm
Dicke: 84 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-521-84445-1 (9780521844451)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
David Norton is Reader in English at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of A History of the Bible as Literature, 2 vols (CUP, 1993, 0521333989 and 0521333997; revised and condensed as A History of the English Bible as Literature, 2000, 0521778077).
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Victoria University of Wellington
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible (with Apocrypha); A Textual History of the King James Bible; Part I. The History: 1. Making the text; 2. Pre-1611 evidence for the text; 3. The first edition; 4. The King's printer at work, 1612-17; 5. Correcting and corrupting the text, 1629-1760; 6. Setting the standard, 1762-1769; 7. The current text; Part II. The New Edition: 8. Variants and orthography; 9. Punctuation and other matters; Appendices 1-9.
