The Bible: Authorized King James Version
Authorized King James Version
$45.48
- Paperback
1824 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science.
This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts—the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-rangin…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199535941 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199535949 |
| Author: | Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 1824 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 1.17kg |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 127mm x 57mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information ... and executed with great skill and enthusiasm'Frank Kermodethis is the best text for reading that is linked to prayer, both from its associations and from its lovely language … it is happy that at Easter 1997 there should be a new printing of the greatest of English religious texts.‘Owen Chadwick, The Observersuperbly readable notes by its editors'Boyd Tonkin, The Independentthis is an edition which every booklover deserves to have’Scotland on Sunday
About The Author
Robert Carroll
Robert Carroll has taught Semitic languages and the Hebrew/English Bible for 30 years at Glasgow University, where he is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies.
Stephen Prickett has held the Chair of English at the Australian National University in Canberra and has taught at Sussex and Minnesota Universities and Smith College, Massachusetts. He is currently Regius Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University.
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