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020			_a0684847477
035			_a(OCoLC)ocm45439877
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050	0	0	_aBS455 _b.B62 2001
082	0	0	_a220.52 BOB _221
100	1		_aBobrick, Benson, _d1947- _913159
245	1	0	_aWide as the waters : _bthe story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired / _cBenson Bobrick.
260			_aNew York : _bSimon & Schuster, _cc2001.
300			_a379 p. : _bports. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 345-357) and index.
520	1		_a"Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was - and is - the most influential book ever published. The most famous of all English Bibles, the King James Version, was the culmination of centuries of work by various translators, from John Wycliffe, the fourteenth-century catalyst of English Bible translation, to the committee of scholars who collaborated on the King James translation.
520	8		_aWide as the Waters examines the life and work of Wycliffe and recounts the tribulations of his successors, including William Tyndale, who was martyred, Miles Coverdale, and others who came to bitter ends. It traces the story of the English Bible through the tumultuous reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I, a time of fierce contest between Catholics and Protestants in England, as the struggle to establish a vernacular Bible was fought among competing factions.
520	8		_aIn the course of that struggle, Sir Thomas More, later made a Catholic saint, helped orchestrate the assault on the English Bible, only to find his own true faith the plaything of his king.".
520	8		_a"In 1604, a committee of fifty-four scholars, the flower of Oxford and Cambridge, collaborated on the new translation for King James. Their collective expertise in biblical languages and related fields has probably never been matched, and the translation they produced - substantially based on the earlier work of Wycliffe, Tyndale, and others - would shape English literature and speech for centuries.
520	8		_aAs the great English historian Macaulay wrote of their version, "If everything else in our language should perish, it alone would suffice to show the extent of its beauty and power." To this day its common expressions, such as "labor of love," "lick the dust," "a thorn in the flesh," "the root of all evil," "the fat of the land," "the sweat of thy brow," "to cast pearls before swine," and "the shadow of death," are heard in everyday speech."--BOOK JACKET.
630	0	0	_aBible. _lEnglish _xVersions _xHistory. _98644
630	0	0	_aBible _zEngland _xHistory. _913160
658			_aReligion
900			_bTOC
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