Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 ‘This treasure in earthen vessels’
- 2 The early Christians and biblical eloquence
- 3 Jerome
- 4 Augustine and his successors
- 5 The occult text
- 6 The challenge to the translators
- 7 Slaves of the Vulgate
- 8 Creators of English
- 9 From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible
- 10 The King James Bible
- 11 Presentations of the text, 1525–1625
- 12 Sixteenth-century movements towards literary praise and appreciation of the Bible
- 13 The struggle for acceptance
- 14 ‘The eloquentest books in the world’
- 15 Versifying the Psalms
- 16 ‘The best materials in the world for poesy’
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- General index
- Biblical index
- Plate section
Biblical index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of plates
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- 1 ‘This treasure in earthen vessels’
- 2 The early Christians and biblical eloquence
- 3 Jerome
- 4 Augustine and his successors
- 5 The occult text
- 6 The challenge to the translators
- 7 Slaves of the Vulgate
- 8 Creators of English
- 9 From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible
- 10 The King James Bible
- 11 Presentations of the text, 1525–1625
- 12 Sixteenth-century movements towards literary praise and appreciation of the Bible
- 13 The struggle for acceptance
- 14 ‘The eloquentest books in the world’
- 15 Versifying the Psalms
- 16 ‘The best materials in the world for poesy’
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- General index
- Biblical index
- Plate section
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- A History of the Bible as Literature , pp. 364 - 375Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993