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
Early eighteenth century literary critics thought the King James Bible had "all the disadvantages of an old prose translation." But from the 1760s on criticism