A History of the English Bible as Literature 1st Edition by David Norton ISBN 0511034288 9780511034282

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ISBN 10: 0511034288 
ISBN 13: 9780511034282
Author: David Norton

Revised and condensed from David Norton’s acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book, first published in 2000, tells the story of English literary attitudes to the Bible. At first jeered at and mocked as English writing, then denigrated as having ‘all the disadvantages of an old prose translation’, the King James Bible somehow became ‘unsurpassed in the entire range of literature’. How so startling a change happened and how it affected the making of modern translations such as the Revised Version and the New English Bible is at the heart of this exploration of a vast range of religious, literary and cultural ideas. Translators, writers such as Donne, Milton, Bunyan and the Romantics, reactionary Bishops and radical students all help to show the changes in religious ideas and in standards of language and literature that created our sense of the most important book in English.

A History of the English Bible as Literature 1st Table of contents:

CHAPTER ONE: Creators of English
THE CHALLENGE TO THE TRANSLATORS
LITERAL TRANSLATION: ROLLE’S PSALTER AND THE WYCLIF BIBLE
WILLIAM TYNDALE
Introduction
Love for ‘the sweet pith within’
Luther and Erasmus
Tyndale, Thomas More and English
JOHN CHEKE AND THE INKHORN
MYLES COVERDALE
CHAPTER TWO: From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible: arguments about language
OFFICIAL BIBLES
OPPOSING CAMPS
The Geneva Bible
The Rheims-Douai Bible
The Martin–Fulke controversy
DOES THE VERBAL FORM MATTER?
CHAPTER THREE: The King James Bible
THE EXCLUDED SCHOLAR: HUGH BROUGHTON
RULES TO MEET THE CHALLENGE
THE PREFACE
BOIS’S NOTES
CONCLUSION
EPILOGUE: BROUGHTON’S LAST WORD
CHAPTER FOUR: Literary implications of Bible presentation
PRESENTATIONS OF THE TEXT, 1525-1625
JOHN LOCKE’S CRITICISM OF THE PRESENTATION OF THE TEXT
CHAPTER FIVE: The struggle for acceptance
THE DEFEAT OF THE GENEVA BIBLE
THE FAILURE OF REVISION
Ambrose Ussher
Commonwealth attempts at revision
QUOTING THE GOOD BOOK
THE LITERARY RECEPTION
John Selden and dirty ears
Robert Boyle against the wits
CHAPTER SIX: The Psalter in verse and poetry
‘FIDELITY RATHER THAN POETRY’
‘A GREAT PREJUDICE TO THE NEW’
AN ASIDE: VERSE EPITOMES OF THE BIBLE
IDEAS OF BIBLICAL POETRY
THE SIDNEY PSALMS
GEORGE WITHER AND THE PSALTER
CHAPTER SEVEN: ‘The eloquentest books in the world’
THE ELOQUENT BIBLE
Thomas Becon and ‘the glorious triumph of God’s most blessed word’
Manuals of rhetoric
Eloquence and divine inspiration
DIVINE INSPIRATION
JOHN DONNE
CONQUERING THE CLASSICS
CONFLICT OVER THE BIBLE AS A MODEL FOR STYLE
THE BIBLE ‘DISPUTED, RHYMED, SUNG AND JANGLED’
WIT, ATHEISM AND THE SAD CASE OF THOMAS AIKENHEAD
CHAPTER EIGHT: Writers and the Bible 1: Milton and Bunyan
‘THE BEST MATERIALS IN THE WORLD FOR POESY’
JOHN MILTON
JOHN BUNYAN
CHAPTER NINE: The early eighteenth century and the King James Bible
‘ALL THE DISADVANTAGES OF AN OLD PROSE TRANSLATION’
The superior language
Longinus and Boileau
The growth of a commonplace
JOHN HUSBANDS
ANTHONY BLACKWALL
‘A KIND OF STANDARD FOR LANGUAGE TO THE COMMON PEOPLE’
A standard
The common people
CHAPTER TEN: Mid–century
ROBERT LOWTH’ S DE SACRA POESI HEBRAEORUM
UNCOUTH, HARSH AND OBSOLETE
Anthony Purver and archaic words
Revision gets a bad name
CHAPTER ELEVEN: The critical rise of the King James Bible
THE INFLUENCE OF POPULAR FEELING
LOWTH AND THE ENGLISH BIBLE
MYTHS ARISE
GEORGE CAMPBELL AND THE KJB AS A LITERARY EXAMPLE
THE KJB IN LITERARY DISCUSSIONS OF THE BIBLE
REVISION OR ‘SUPERSTITIOUS VENERATION’
RANCOROUS REASON AND BROUHAHA
CHAPTER TWELVE: Writers and the Bible 2: the Romantics
THE FAKER AND THE MADMAN
WILLIAM BLAKE AND ‘THE POETIC GENIUS’
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AND THE POSSIBILITY OF A NEW LITERARY SENSE OF THE BIBLE
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE AND ‘THE LIVING EDUCTS OF THE IMAGINATION’
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY AND ‘SCRIPTURE AS A COMPOSITION’
AN INFIDEL AND THE BIBLE: LORD BYRON
A BIBLE FOR THE ROMANTIC READER
CHARLOTTE BRONTË AND THE INFLUENCE OF THE KJB
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Literary discussion to mid–Victorian times
THE PIOUS CHORUS
AN INSPIRED TRANSLATION
THE KJB AS A LITERARY INFLUENCE
PARALLELISM REVISITED
GEORGE GILFILLAN AND ‘THE LESSON OF INFINITE BEAUTY’
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Revised Version
RULES FOR THE REVISION
THE PREFACE TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
EVIDENCE FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISERS
AN ENGLISH ACCOUNT OF CHANGES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
THE NEW TESTAMENT REVISERS AT WORK
THE RECEPTION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
THE PREFACE TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
AN AMERICAN ACCOUNT OF CHANGES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
NOTES FROM THE FIRST REVISION OF GENESIS
CONCLUSION
AN ASIDE: DIALECT VERSIONS
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Bible ‘as literature’
THE BIBLE ‘AS A CLASSIC’: LE ROY HALSEY
THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION AND SCHOOL BIBLE READING
MATTHEW ARNOLD
RICHARD MOULTON AND LITERARY MORPHOLOGY
ANTHOLOGISTS
PRESENTING THE TEXT AS LITERATURE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The later reputation of the King James Bible
TESTIMONIES FROM WRITERS
FUNDAMENTALISTS AND THE GOD-GIVEN TRANSLATION
MODERN AVOLATRY
THE SHAKESPEAREAN TOUCH
DISSENTING VOICES
THE HEBREW INHERITANCE AND THE VIRTUES OF LITERALISM
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The New English Bible

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