Revised and condensed from David Norton's acclaimed A History of the Bible as Literature, this book, first published in 2000, tells the story of English literar
The Bible in the English language is among the great achievements of all time, not only as a masterpiece of inspired writing but as a witness to the place of th
It would be difficult to overestimate the importance of the Bible in the medieval world. For the Anglo-Saxons, literary culture emerged from sustained and inten