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GOD'S SECRETARIES : The Making of the King James Bible

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GOD'S SECRETARIES : The Making of the King James Bible

por Adam Nicolson

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New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2005. Re-Print . Paperback. Very Good/None as Issued. Archival Photographs. Text/NEW & Bright. Softcover illustrated by Mumtaz Mustafa/VG; sound w/light shelfwear & marked fading & discoloration to back. The King James Bible is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England which was completed & published in 1611; distinguished by its "majesty of style", the Bible ranks among the most important books in English culture and English-speaking worlds. The original 2003 edition was published in England w/the title "Power and Glory"; this is the re-titled paperback edition. Adam Nicolson reviews the King James Version in its historical context of the Jacobean England of Shakespeare, Jonson & Bacon. Annecdotes of the many who worked on it and how the task was accomplished make it an excellent companion reader to the King James Bible; a masterly work. 281 pgs in 12 chapters w/appendices, followed by separately paginated pages w/a biographical sketch of Nicolson and the makings of this book.

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A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson and Bacon; of the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; Arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, of sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than it had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between the polarities.This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness" and the English language had come into its first passionate maturity. Boisterous, elegant, subtle, majestic, finely nuanced, sonorous and musical, the English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own reach and scope than any before or since. It is a form of the language that drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book.The sponsor and guide of the whole Bible project was the King himself, the brilliant, ugly and profoundly peace-loving James the Sixth of Scotland and First of England. Trained almost from birth to manage the rivalries of political factions at home, James saw in England the chance for a sort of irenic Eden over which the new translation of the Bible was to preside. It was to be a Bible for everyone, and as God's lieutenant on earth, he would use it to unify his kingdom. The dream of Jacobean peace, guaranteed by an elision of royal power and divine glory, lies behind a Bible of extraordinary grace and everlasting literary power.About fifty scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London did the work, drawing on many previous versions, and created a text which, for all its failings, has never been equaled. That is the central question of this book: How did this group of near-anonymous divines, muddled, drunk, self-serving, ambitious, ruthless, obsequious, pedantic and flawed as they were, manage to bring off this astonishing translation? How did such ordinary men make such extraordinary prose? In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king; of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible; of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building, but a book.

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Nº do estoque do livreiro
020221
Título
GOD'S SECRETARIES : The Making of the King James Bible
Autor
Adam Nicolson
Ilustrador
Archival Photographs
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Brochura
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Usado - Muito Bom
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None as Issued
Quantidade Disponível
1
Edição
Re-Print
ISBN 10
0060838736
ISBN 13
9780060838737
Editorial
Harper Perennial
Local de publicação
New York, NY
Data de publicação
2005
Palavras-chave
Literary Analysis/Historical/King James Bible/Church of England/Jacobean Engliand
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