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MacGregor, Geddes.

A literary history of the Bible : from the Middle Ages to the present day / - Nashville, Abingdon Press [1968] - 400 p. 25 cm.

Bibliographical footnotes.

1. Introduction--
2. The Bible and the medieval mind--
3. The psalter in medieval life--
4. Hebrew scholarship in the middle ages--
5. Text and commentary--
6. The letter and the figure--
7. The Thomist solution--
8. Vernacular manuscript bibles in the middle ages--
9. The English Bible in the middle ages--
10. The sixteenth-century biblical renaissance--
11. Roots of the biblical renaissance--
12. First printed bibles in the vernacular--
13. The first printed New Testament in English--
14. Coverdale and the first English Bible--
15. The Matthew and the Taverner Bibles--
16 The great Bible--
17. The geneva Bible--
18. The bishops' Bible--
19. The Douai-Reims version--
20. "Queen" James--
21. The King James regulations--
22. The King James translators--
23. The King James version--
24. Corrections and curiosities in the King James editions--
25. English translations between the King James and the revised version.
26. Light from the east--
27. The revised version--
28. More eastern light through western windows--
29. Independent modern English versions--
30. The twentieth-century biblical renaissance--
31. The revised Standard version--
32. The new English Bible--
33. Conspectus of a passage in various English versions--
34. Is translation possible?--
35. Biblical literature and creative power.


LCCN: 68011477

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Bible. English --History.

LC Class. No.: BS 455 / .M32 1968

Dewey Class. No.: 220.5/09