The King James Version At 400 : Assessing Its Genius As Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Vital Aspects of the KJV Genius -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- The Editors to the Reader -- Rendering Voices: A Poem for the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible -- The KJV at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence -- Part 1: The King James Version in Its Historical Context -- The King James Bible in Early Modern Political Context -- The KJV and the Rapid Growth of English in the Elizabethan-Jacobean Era -- English Printing before the King James Bible: A Reconsideration -- The King James Bible and the Language of Liturgy -- The KJV and Women: Soundings and Suggestions -- John Speed's "Canaan" and British Travel to Palestine: A Journey with Maps -- Part 2: KJV in the History of Bible Translation -- Luther's Approach to Bible Translation and the KJV -- Revising the KJV: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Century -- The Role of the Metatexts in the King James Version as a Means of Mediating Conflicting Theological Views -- Priorities, Principles, and Prefaces: From the KJV to Today (1611-2011) -- The KJV and the Development of Text Criticism -- The KJV Translation of the Old Testament: The Case of Job -- The KJV New Testament: What Worked for the Translators and What Did Not? -- The KJV and Anglo-Jewish Translations of the Bible: A Unique and Uniquely Fruitful Connection -- The Influence of the KJV in Protestant Chinese Bible Translation Work -- The Monarchs and the Message: Reflections on Bible Translation from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century -- Part 3: The Impact of the King James Version: Its Reception and Influence -- The Question of Eloquence in the King James Version -- The King James Bible Apocrypha: When and Why Lost? -- "Not of an Age, But for All Time": King James and Master Will, Words with Thoughts.

The Word and the Words: Andrewes, Donne, and the Theology of Translation -- The KJV and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric -- The King James Bible: Messianic Meditations -- America's King of Kings: The King James Bible and American Civil Religion -- The KJV in Orthodox Perspective -- African Americans and the King James Version of the Bible -- "A New Garb for the Jewish Soul": The JPS Bible in the Light of the King James Bible -- The Master Copy: Postcolonial Notes on the King James Bible -- Select Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

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