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Labourers in the Vineyard of the Lord : Erudition and the Making of the King James Version of the Bible.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (415 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004359055
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Labourers in the Vineyard of the LordLOC classification:
  • BS186 .L225 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Chapter 1. Birth and Early Reception of a Masterpiece: Some Loose Ends and Common Misconceptions (Feingold) -- ‎Chapter 2. Lambeth Palace Library in 1611 and Its Contribution to Christian Hebraism (Carley) -- ‎Chapter 3. Early Oxford Hebraism and the King James Translators (1586-1617): The View from New College (Poole) -- ‎Chapter 4. Edward Lively, Cosmopolitan Hebraist (Grafton) -- ‎Chapter 5. John Rainolds: Critic and Translator (Feingold) -- ‎Chapter 6. The Hebraic Explorations of the English Mercier: Richard Kilbie (1560/61-1620) (Weinberg) -- ‎Chapter 7. The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible: Samuel Ward's Draft of 1Esdras and Wisdom 3-4 (Miller) -- ‎Chapter 8. Revising the King James Apocrypha: John Bois, Isaac Casaubon, and the Case of 1Esdras (Hardy) -- ‎Chapter 9. Miles Smith (1552/53-1624) and the Uses of Oriental Learning (Roebuck) -- ‎Chapter 10. Audience and Error: Translation, Philology, and Rhetoric in the Preaching of Lancelot Andrewes (Knight) -- ‎Index.
Summary: Utilizing a wide range of sources, the volume furnishes precious new information regarding the composition and early reception of the King James Bible, and situates the masterpiece within the broad context of early modern scholarship and polemics.
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Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Chapter 1. Birth and Early Reception of a Masterpiece: Some Loose Ends and Common Misconceptions (Feingold) -- ‎Chapter 2. Lambeth Palace Library in 1611 and Its Contribution to Christian Hebraism (Carley) -- ‎Chapter 3. Early Oxford Hebraism and the King James Translators (1586-1617): The View from New College (Poole) -- ‎Chapter 4. Edward Lively, Cosmopolitan Hebraist (Grafton) -- ‎Chapter 5. John Rainolds: Critic and Translator (Feingold) -- ‎Chapter 6. The Hebraic Explorations of the English Mercier: Richard Kilbie (1560/61-1620) (Weinberg) -- ‎Chapter 7. The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible: Samuel Ward's Draft of 1Esdras and Wisdom 3-4 (Miller) -- ‎Chapter 8. Revising the King James Apocrypha: John Bois, Isaac Casaubon, and the Case of 1Esdras (Hardy) -- ‎Chapter 9. Miles Smith (1552/53-1624) and the Uses of Oriental Learning (Roebuck) -- ‎Chapter 10. Audience and Error: Translation, Philology, and Rhetoric in the Preaching of Lancelot Andrewes (Knight) -- ‎Index.

Utilizing a wide range of sources, the volume furnishes precious new information regarding the composition and early reception of the King James Bible, and situates the masterpiece within the broad context of early modern scholarship and polemics.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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