The History of the English Bible
Gelesen von MaryAnn
John Brown
(4,5 Sterne; 14 Bewertungen)
The celebration of the Tercentenary of the Authorized Version of the English Bible of 1611 has called into existence the little book here presented to the reader's notice. It is the brief repetition of a story beginning in 670 A.D. and reaching on for twelve hundred years to 1879. It takes us back to the Monastery of Whitby where Caedmon the monk paraphrased Scripture story in Saxon song, and brings us through the centuries to the Abbey of Westminster where a distinguished body of English scholars met in 1870 and commenced that Revision of the Scriptures which first saw the light in 1881. (From the Preface) (3 hr 11 min)
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More interesting than I expected!
Laurie & John Elliot
(4,5 Sterne)
I chose this book because I like the narrator ...But also because I figured it would be less riveting tan a novel so I wouldn't be diverted from my writing project. While it's true that novel would have tempted me more often this was definitely an interesting read! I even downloaded the text from archive.org in order to re-read some of the more memorable(quotable) commentary.
Tillie
Ed & Yvonne Dunlap
(5 Sterne)
Thanks for reading! So much great information!
Hardly feel qualified to critique...
The Weeping Prophet
(4 Sterne)
Very well read.