Contents
Foreword: Vital Aspects of the KJV Genius
Preface and Acknowledgments
The Editors to the Reader
Rendering Voices: A Poem for the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
The KJV at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence
Part 1: The King James Version in Its Historical Context
The King James Bible in Early Modern Political Context
The KJV and the Rapid Growth of English in the Elizabethan-Jacobean Era
English Printing before the King James Bible: A Reconsideration
The King James Bible and the Language of Liturgy
The KJV and Women: Soundings and Suggestions
John Speed’s “Canaan” and British Travel to Palestine: A Journey with Maps
Part 2: KJV in the History of Bible Translation
Luther’s Approach to Bible Translation and the KJV
Revising the KJV: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Century
The Role of the Metatexts in the King James Version as a Means of Mediating Conflicting Theological Views
Priorities, Principles, and Prefaces: From the KJV to Today (1611–2011)
The KJV and the Development of Text Criticism
The KJV Translation of the Old Testament: The Case of Job
The KJV New Testament: What Worked for the Translators and What Did Not?
The KJV and Anglo-Jewish Translations of the Bible: A Unique and Uniquely Fruitful Connection
The Influence of the KJV in Protestant Chinese Bible Translation Work
The Monarchs and the Message: Reflections on Bible Translation from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Part 3: The Impact of the King James Version: Its Reception and Influence
The Question of Eloquence in the King James Version
The King James Bible Apocrypha: When and Why Lost?
“Not of an Age, But for All Time”: King James and Master Will, Words with Thoughts
The Word and the Words: Andrewes, Donne, and the Theology of Translation
The KJV and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Lyric
The King James Bible: Messianic Meditations
America’s King of Kings: The King James Bible and American Civil Religion
The KJV in Orthodox Perspective
African Americans and the King James Version of the Bible
“A New Garb for the Jewish Soul”: The JPS Bible in the Light of the King James Bible
The Master Copy: Postcolonial Notes on the King James Bible
Select Bibliography
Contributors
Index