Labourers in the vineyard of the Lord : scholarship and the making of the King James version of the Bible / edited by Mordechai Feingold.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Feingold, Mordechai, editor.

Series:

History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; 2352-1325. Volume 22.

Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, ; Volume 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible--English--Versions--Authorized--History.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (415 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

The centrality of the King James Bible to early modern culture has been widely recognized. Yet for all the vast literature devoted to the masterpiece, little attention has been paid either to the scholarly scaffolding of the translation or to the erudition of the translators. The present volume seeks to redress this neglect by focusing attention on seven key translators as well as on their intellectual milieu. Utilizing a wide range of hitherto unknown or overlooked sources, the volume furnishes not only precious new information regarding the composition and early reception of the King James Bible, but firmly situates the labours of the translators within the broad context of early modern biblical and oriental scholarship and polemics. Contributors are James P. Carley, Mordechai Feingold, Anthony Grafton, Nicholas J. S. Hardy, Alison Knight, Jeffrey Alan Miller, William Poole, Thomas Roebuck, and Joanna Weinberg.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Notes on Contributors

Birth and Early Reception of a Masterpiece: Some Loose Ends and Common Misconceptions / Mordechai Feingold

Lambeth Palace Library in 1611 and Its Contribution to Christian Hebraism / James P. Carley

Early Oxford Hebraism and the King James Translators (1586–1617): The View from New College / William Poole

Edward Lively, Cosmopolitan Hebraist / Anthony Grafton

John Rainolds: Critic and Translator / Mordechai Feingold

The Hebraic Explorations of the English Mercier: Richard Kilbie (1560/61–1620) / Joanna Weinberg

The Earliest Known Draft of the King James Bible: Samuel Ward’s Draft of 1 Esdras and Wisdom 3–4 / Jeffrey Alan Miller

Revising the King James Apocrypha: John Bois, Isaac Casaubon, and the Case of 1 Esdras / Nicholas J.S. Hardy

Miles Smith (1552/53–1624) and the Uses of Oriental Learning / Thomas Roebuck

Audience and Error: Translation, Philology, and Rhetoric in the Preaching of Lancelot Andrewes / Alison Knight

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35905-2

OCLC:

1030818714

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004359055 DOI