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Informationen zum Autor David Norton is Reader in English at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the author of A History of the Bible as Literature, 2 vols (CUP, 1993; revised and condensed as A History of the English Bible as Literature, 2000). Klappentext David Norton has recently re-edited the King James Bible for Cambridge! and this book arises from his intensive work on that project. Here he shows how the text of the most important Bible in the English language was made! and how! for better and for worse! it changed in the hands of printers and editors until! in 1769! it became the text we know today. Using evidence as diverse as the manuscript work of the original translators! and the results of extensive computer collation of electronically held texts! Norton has produced a scholarly edition of the King James Bible for the new century that will restore the authority of the 1611 translation. This book describes this fascinating background! explains Norton s editorial principles and provides substantial lists and tables of variant readings. It will be indispensable to scholars of the English Bible! literature! and publishing history. Zusammenfassung In this 2005 book! David Norton! editor of the new critical edition of the King James Bible! shows how the text of the most important Bible in the English language was made and how it changed in the hands of printers and editors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. The History: 1. Making the text; 2. Pre-1611 evidence for the text; 3. The first edition; 4. The King's printer at work, 1612-17; 5. Correcting and corrupting the text, 1629-1760; 6. Setting the standard, 1762-9; 7. The current text; Part II. The New Edition: 8. Variants and orthography; 9. Punctuation and other matters; Appendices 1-9.
