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The King James Version of the English Bible
s/t: An Account of the Development & Sources of the English Bible of 1611 with Special Reference to the Hebrew Tradition.
Focuses on the role of Renaissance Greek & Hebrew scholars & religious reformers in the 1611 publication of the King James, the Authorized Version of the English Bible.
Focuses on the role of Renaissance Greek & Hebrew scholars & religious reformers in the 1611 publication of the King James, the Authorized Version of the English Bible.
236 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1941
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David Daiches
195 books30 followersDavid Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.
He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. Dr. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.
During World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.
Daiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture.
Daiches was the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian.
He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of World War I, where his father, Rev. Dr. Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community. He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.
During World War II, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Service and drafting speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.
Daiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture.
Daiches was the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian.
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August 19, 2014
The author of this study of the formation of the Authorized Version of the English Bible was a Scottish literary critic, not a biblical scholar. Consequently, his orientation is to the text as literature within the English canon. The work is quite scholarly and was, frankly, somewhat beyond me as I am not an expert on the period of King James and much of the book is about the politics of creating the committee which oversaw the creation of the AV.
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