David Norton
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David Norton
David (Victoria University of Wellington) Norton
A History of the English Bible as Literature
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.
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David Norton
David (Victoria University of Wellington) Norton
The King James Bible
The King James Bible was the result of an extraordinary effort over nearly a century to make many good English translations and turn them into what the translators called 'one principal good one, not justly to be excepted against'.
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David Norton
David (Victoria University of Wellington) Norton
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 1, From Antiquity to 1700
It is regarded as a truism that the King James Bible is one of the finest pieces of English prose. Yet few people are aware that the King James Bible was generally scorned or ignored as English writing for a century and a half after its publication.
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David Norton
A History of the Bible as Literature: Volume 2, From 1700 to the Present Day
Early-eighteenth-century literary critics thought the King James Bible had 'all the disadvantages of an old prose translation'. But from the 1760s on criticism became increasingly favourable.
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David Norton
David (Victoria University of Wellington) Norton
A Textual History of the King James Bible
David Norton re-edited the King James Bible for Cambridge, and this 2005 book arose from his intensive work on that project. Here he shows how the text of the most important Bible in the English language was made, and how, for better and for worse, it changed in the hands of printers and editors until, in 1769, it became the text we know today.
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