The Politics of English Bible Translation in Georgian Britain ( The Alexander Prize )
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005512 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Neil W Hitchin (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 67-92 |
| Publication date | 1999-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3679393 |
| OpenAlex | W2026317732 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
The eighteenth century is a lost era in the history of English bible translation. The long tenure of the King James, or Authorised Version (AV), has caused historians to overlook the existence of the scores of translations which were attempted between 1611 and 1881–5, when the Revised Version was published. Darlow and Moule's Historical Catalogue of English Bibles lists the publication of at least forty-four new English translations of bibles, testaments, individual books, or groups of books between 1700 and 1800. There were many more translations of biblical texts than these, however, as the recent and more comprehensive catalogue by W. Chamberlin has conclusively demonstrated. Many have been lost to historical sight, or were never published, which could have easily been the fate of the celebrated translation by Anthony Purver, were it not for the patronage of the wealthy physician and fellow Quaker, Dr John Fothergill
Art · Georgian · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Classics · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
The English Bible and the seventeenth-century revolution
Cheap Bibles
Eclipse of Biblical Narrative
The Province of Legislation Determined
Liberty before Liberalism
Toward a Science of Translating
The French Prophets
Sabbath and Sectarianism in Seventeenth-Century England
The bible and national identity in the British Isles, c .1650– c .1750
Church and State in England in the XVIIIth Century
Hume and Johnson on Prophecy and Miracles
The Cambridge History of the Bible. The West from the Reformation to the Present Day
English Versions of the Bible
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |