In discordance with the Scriptures : American Protestant battles over translating the Bible
A history of the translation of Holy Writ in America. Recurrent controversies over various translations, the author argues, tell us less about the linguistic issues dividing conservatives and liberals than about the theological assumptions they have long held in common.
History
xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780195152289, 019515228X
50783657
Introduction: Sharper than Any Two-Edged Sword: The Bible in Modern American Protestantism ; 1. The Blood of the Martyr: History, Hagiography, and the Consecration of the English Bible ; 2. Coronation of "King Truth": Bible Revision and Late Nineteenth-Century Imagination ; 3. Scripture for the Ecumenical Church: Liberal Protestants and the Making of the RSV Bible ; 4. The Great RSV Controversy: Bible-Burning, Red-Hunting, and the Strange Specter of Unholy Scripture ; 5. The Virgin Text: Evangelicals and Liberals in the Quest for an Undefiled Book ; Epilogue: Virginity Lost, Virginity Regained? Translation and Scripturalism since 1965
Originally published: 1999