The Bible (World's Classics) - Softcover

Carroll, Robert

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9780192830999: The Bible (World's Classics)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192830996 ISBN 13: 9780192830999

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 1997

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The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely religion, but politics, art, and even science. This edition offers an exciting approach to the most influential of all English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version, complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-ranging introduction and the substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader through the labyrinth of literary, textual, and theological issues, using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why the Bible has affected the literature, art and general culture of the English-speaking world.

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"The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information...and executed with great skill and enthusiasm."--Frank Kermode "The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information...and executed with great skill and enthusiasm."--Frank Kermode "The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information...and executed with great skill and enthusiasm."--Frank Kermode "The World's Classics Bible [is] a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information...and executed with great skill and enthusiasm."--Frank Kermode "The World's Classics Bible is a quite extraordinary success. It is learned but entirely accessible, full of fascinating information...and executed with great skill and enthusiasm."--Frank Kermode

About the Author:

Robert Carroll has taught Semitic languages and the Hebrew/English Bible for 30 years at Glasgow University, where he is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Semitic Studies. Stephen Prickett has held the Chair of English at the Australian National University in Canberra, and has taught at Sussex and Minnesota Universities and Smith College, Massachusetts. He is currently Regius Professor of English Literature at Glasgow University.

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