A history of the Bible as literature
This 1993 volume traces how opinions of the King James Bible changed from the eighteenth-century view that it had 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation' to nineteenth-century praise for 'the noblest monument of English prose'. It also shows how literary criticism has shaped understanding of the Bible and how the Bible has shaped literary criticism.
Print Book, English, 1993
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1993
Criticism, interpretation, etc
2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521333986, 9780521333993, 9780521617000, 9780521617017, 0521333989, 0521333997, 0521617006, 0521617014
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V. 1. From antiquity to 1700 (xvii, 375 p.)
v. 2. From 1700 to the present day
New Zealand author
Reprinted as pbk. 2004