A Textual History of the King James Bible

David Norton (Victoria University of Wellington)

A Textual History of the King James Bible
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
10 January 2005
Pages
400
ISBN
9780521771009

A Textual History of the King James Bible

David Norton (Victoria University of Wellington)

David Norton has recently re-edited the King James Bible for Cambridge, and this book arises 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. Using evidence as diverse as the manuscript work of the original translators, and the results of extensive computer collation of electronically held texts, Norton has produced a scholarly edition of the King James Bible for the new century that will restore the authority of the 1611 translation. This book describes this fascinating background, explains Norton’s editorial principles and provides substantial lists and tables of variant readings. It will be indispensable to scholars of the English Bible, literature, and publishing history.

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