God's last words
Subtitle: reading the English Bible from the Reformation to fundamentalism
By: David S. Katz.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
Subjects: Bible. -- Versions -- History; Bible -- England -- History
Description: "This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the twentieth century. In an astonishing display of erudition, David Katz recreates the response of readers from different eras by examining the 'horizon of expectations' that provided the lens through which they read."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [316]-374) and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: The biblical reader and the shifting horizon of expectations; title: The prehistoric English Bible; title: In pursuit of a useful Bible : scriptural politics and the English Civil War; title: Cracking the foundations : biblical criticism and the Newtonian synthesis; title: Streamlined Scriptures : the demystification of the Bible; title: The occult Bible : aesthetization and the persistence of the supernatural; title: Divine copyright and the apotheosis of the author in eighteenth-century England; title: Ten little Israelites : counting out the Bible in Victorian England; title: Unsuitable paternity : Darwin, anthropology, and the evolutionist Bible; title: Conclusion: The end of a world and the beginning of fundamentalism.