The Bible (平装) 0141441518

在线阅读本书 A major new edition of the King James Bible?faithfully presented for the twenty-firstcentury Although it is the most important book in the religious life and culture of the English-speakingworld, the King James Bible, or Authorized Version of 1611, has never been perfectlyrepresented in print. This edition makes available the translators? intended work with a fidelitynever before achieved?allowing the most read, heard, and loved book in the English language tospeak with new vigor to modern readers.

The work we have long read as the King James Bible contains numerous changes, bothdeliberate and accidental, to the text. David Norton has scrupulously collated the established textwith the translators? original manuscripts to create this new authoritative edition. In addition, hehas modernized and standardized the spelling but left intact the words and grammatical forms,and he has restored most of the original punctuation, which, unlike the standard version, largelyadheres to modern practices. Finally, he presents the text in paragraph format, making this KingJames Bible a fully comprehensible and gratifying read.

David Norton, associate professor of English at New Zealand?s Victoria University ofWellington, is the author of A History of the Bible as Literature and A Textual History ofthe King James Bible.