Peter J. Thuesen

In Discordance with the Scriptures (eBook, PDF)

American Protestant Battles Over Translating the Bible

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The story of the translation of the Bible in America begins with the King James Version. In fact, many Americans thought of the KJV as the foundational text of the Republic, rather than a cultural inheritance from Anglican Britain. In the nineteenth century, however, as new editions of the Greek New Testament appeared, scholars increasingly recognized significant errors and inconsistencies in the KJV. This soon 1ed to the Bible revision movement, whose goal was the uniting of all English-speaking Protestants behind one new, improved version of the Bible. Ironically, as Peter Thuesen shows in this fascinating history, the revision movement in fact resulted in a vast proliferation of English scripture editions and an enduring polarization of American Christians over versions of Holy Writ. The recurrent controversies over Bible translations, he argues, tell us less about the linguistic issues dividing conservatives and liberals than about the theological assumptions they have long held in common.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 1999
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195351941
• Artikelnr.: 38128119

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Thuesen is Associate Professor of religious studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Sharper than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern
American Protestantism
* 1: The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the
Consecration of the English Bible
* 2: Coronation of "King Truth": Bible Revision and Late
Nineteenth-Century Imagination
* 3: Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the
Making of the RSV Bible
* 4: The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the
Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture
* 5: The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an
Undefiled Book
* Epilogue: Virginity Lost, Virginity Regained? Translation and
Scripturalism since 1965