The King James Bible : across borders and centuries /
Twelve essays by scholars from a variety of academic disciplines examine the King James Version of the Bible both as world literature and as an important force in social, geographical and linguistic cultures, demonstrating its influence from the Protestant Reformation to the present day.
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Pittsburgh :
Duquesne University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "In the beginning" of the KJV's fifth century / Angelica Duran
- Part 1. Transforming. Listening and reading / Gordon Campbell
- Back to the garden : Jewish hermeneutics, biblical reading, PaRDeS, and the four-fold way / Sandor Goodhart
- "Them's fightin' words : the KJV, its predecessors, and its inheritors / Stuart Robertson
- Old wine in new boxes : niche Bibles and the KJV / Beth Quitslund
- Part 2. Extending. The KJV translators on the Spanish Inquisition's index of prohibited books / Angelical Duran
- "The voice of one crying in the wilderness" : the KJV and the ethno-exegesis in Iroquoia / Scott Manning Stevens
- Words of justice in a secular society : the KJV in Australia / John Harris
- Vox Dei in the King's English : the KJV, global English, and Indian vernaculars / Bruce Robertson
- Part 3. Appropriating. Reading between the lines : neo-slave narratives and the KJV / Katherine Clay Bassard
- "Passing the love of women" : sexual codes and the KJV / Raymond-Jean Frontain
- The KJV plagiarized : Joseph Smith's Mormon scriptures / Trevor Cook
- "For the Bible tells me so" : the KJV in children's literature / Patricia Demers.