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The Bible: Authorized King James Version

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Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Carroll and Stephen Prickett

17 April 2008

ISBN: 9780199535941

1,824 pages
Paperback
196x129mm

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Oxford World's Classics

Price: £14.99

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Description

The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science.

This unique edition offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-ranging Introduction and the substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader through the labyrinth of literary, textual, and theological issues, using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why the Bible has affected the literature, art and general culture of the English-speaking world.

About the Author(s)

Edited with introduction and notes by Robert Carroll, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semantic Studies, University of Glasgow, and Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor of English Literature, University of Glasgow

Reviews

"The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information ... and executed with great skill and enthusiasm" - Frank Kermode

"[The editors] seem to have read everything ... and their commentary consistently illuminates everything it touches upon, from the meaning of single words to the largest issues ... A magnificent achievement" - Gabriel Josipovici

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