In Discordance with the Scriptures American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible

Name: In Discordance with the Scriptures American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible
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ISBN: 9780195127362

ISBN-10: 0195127366

ISBN-13: 9780195127362

Edition: 1999

Authors: Peter J. Thuesen

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The story of the translation of the Bible in America begins with the King James Version. In fact, many Americans thought of the KJV as the foundational text of the Republic, rather than a cultural inheritance from Anglican Britain. In the nineteenth century, however, as new editions of the Greek New Testament appeared, scholars increasingly recognized significant errors and inconsistencies in the KJV. This soon 1ed to the Bible revision movement, whose goal was the uniting of all English-speaking Protestants behind one new, improved version of the Bible. Ironically, as Peter Thuesen shows in this fascinating history, the revision movement in fact resulted in a vast proliferation of English…

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/16/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.40" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Introduction: Sharper than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern American Protestantism



The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the Consecration of the English Bible



Coronation of ""King Truth"": Bible Revision and Late Nineteenth-Century Imagination



Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the Making of the RSV Bible



The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture



The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an Undefiled Book


Epilogue: Virginity Lost, Virginity Regained? Translation and Scripturalism since 1965