The Making of the English Bible

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Excerpt from The Making of the English Bible: With an Introductory Essay on the Influence of the English Bible on English LiteratureOur day asks that these Old Greek and Hebrew writings should speak to him as they Spoke to their first readers, freed from the meanings imposed upon them by later ages and from the unconscious errors Of imperfect scholarship. A Bible that refuses to meet this demand may serve the needs Of a coterie, it cannot Speak home to a wider humanity. On the other hand, a translation which would break away from the past and pedantically renounce the moving and living rhythm of earlier workers would make no wide appeal to the popular mind. Having no root in the soil of a great literary tradition it would soon wither away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.