Binding: Hardcover Condition: New Size: 6.5 x 9.4 x 1 in. 273 pp. Publisher: Yale University Press 10/31/2008 ISBN Number:0300114249 / 9780300114249
SKU: 9780300114249
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Publisher Description: In the eleventh century, the Bible was available only in expensive and rare hand-copied manuscripts. Today, millions of people from all walks of life seek guidance, inspiration, entertainment, and answers from their own editions of the Bible. This illustrated book tells the story of what happened to the ancient set of writings we call the Bible during those thousand years. Anchoring the story in material evidence--hundreds of different translations and versions of the Bible--Lori Anne Ferrell discusses how the Bible has been endlessly retailored to meet the changing needs of religion, politics, and the reading public while retaining its special status as a sacred text. Focusing on the English-speaking world, "The Bible and the People" charts the extraordinary voyage of the Bible from manuscript Bibles to the Gutenberg volumes, Bibles commissioned by kings and queens, the Eliot Indian Bible, salesmen's door-to-door Bibles, children's Bibles, Gideon Bibles, teen magazine Bibles, and more. Ferrell discusses the Bible's profound impact on readers over the centuries, and, in turn, the mark those readers made upon it. Enjoyable and informative, this book takes a fresh look at the fascinating and little-recognized connections among Christian, political, and book history.
Biographical Note: Lori Anne Ferrell is Associate Professor and Chair, at Claremont Graduate University and Claremont School of Theology, Claremont, California. Peter McCullough is Sohmer-Hall Fellow in English Renaissance Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford and University Lecturer in English.
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