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The Book of Books

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by Melvyn Bragg


  SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

  Anderson, Christopher, The Annals of the English Bible, London: William Pickering, 1845

  Bobrick, Benson, Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired, Simon and Schuster, 2001

  Bourne, George, A Condensed Anti-Slavery Bible Argument, 1845

  Bragg, Melvyn, The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language, Sceptre, 2004

  Bragg, Melvyn, 12 Books That Changed the World, Hodder & Stoughton, 2006

  Bruce, Frederick Fyvie, The King James Version: The First 350Years, OUP, 1960

  Bruce, Frederick Fyvie, History of the Bible in English, Cambridge: Lutterworth Press, 2002

  Campbell, Gordon, Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611—2011, OUP, 2010

  Crystal, David, Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language, OUP, 2010

  Daniell, David, The Bible in English: Its History and Influence, YUP, 2003

  Davies, Julian, The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625 – 41, Clarendon Press, 1992

  Dawkins, Richard, The God Delusion, Bantam, 2006

  Fox, John, ‘The Influence of the English Bible on Literature’, Princeton Theological Review, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1911

  Harris, Sam, Letter to a Christian Nation, Bantam, 2007

  Harrison, Eugene Myers, Blazing the Missionary Trail, Chicago, Ill.: Scripture Press Book Division, 1949

  Hill, Christopher, The English Bible and the Seventeenth-Century Revolution, Penguin Books, 1993

  Hills, Margaret T. (ed.), The English Bible in America: A Bibliography of Editions of the Bible and the New Testament Published in America, 1777 – 1957, Greenwood, 1991

  Jayne, A.G., ‘The Bible in English’ in Henry Barker, A Tercentenary Celebration of the Authorized Version of the English Bible, New York Bible and Common Prayer Book Society, 1911

  MacCulloch, Diarmaid, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Allen Lane, 2009

  Mayhew, Henry, London Labour and the London Poor, Penguin Classics, 2006

  McAfee, Cleland Boyd, The Greatest English Classic: A Study of the King James Version of the Bible and its Influence on Life and Literature, New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912

  McGrath, Alister, In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How it Changed a Nation, a Language and a Culture, Hodder & Stoughton, 2002

  Middleton, Richard, Colonial America: A History, 1565 – 1776, Blackwell, 2000

  Miller, Randall M. (ed.), Religion and the American Civil War, OUP, 1998

  Nelson, Scott Reynolds and Sheriff, Carol, A People at War: Civilians and Soldiers in America’s Civil War, 1854 – 1877, OUP, 2007

  Nicolson, Adam, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, HarperCollins, 2003

  Noll, Mark, The Civil War as a Theological Crisis, University of North Carolina Press, 2006

  Norton, David, A Textual History of the King James Bible, CUP, 2005

  Rowse, A.L., William Shakespeare: A Biography, Barnes & Noble, 1995

  Scrivener, Henry Ambrose Frederick, The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its Subsequent Reprints and Modern Representatives, CUP, 1884

  Shaheen, Naseeb, Biblical References in Shakespeare’s Plays, University of Delaware Press, 1999

  Taylor, Alan, American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Penguin, 2001

  Walsh, W. Pakenham, Modern Heroes of the Mission Field, New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1915

  Wheeler, J.M., Satan, Witchcraft and the Bible, London, 1895

  WEBSITES

  http://www.tyndale.org/TSJ/3/mansbridge.html

  http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga

  http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chaptero1.html

  http://www.natsoc.org.uk/society/history/

  http://www.gideons.org

  http://www.biblesociety.org.uk

  http://www.usccgettysburg.org/

  http://www.av1611.org/kjv/reagan.html

  http://www.ymca.net

  INDEX

  ‘KJB’ indicated the King James Bible.

  Abel

  abortion

  Abraham

  Abravanel, Isaac ben

  Adam

  Adams, John

  Addams, Jane

  adultery

  Africa

  African Methodist Episcopal Church

  African-Americans

  Ahab, King

  Alcott, Louisa May

  Alfred the Great

  All About Eve (film)

  Allestree, Richard

  ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’

  America

  the Bible and literature

  Great Awakenings

  missionaries in

  new world founded

  slavery and civil war

  American Bible Society

  American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

  American Civil War

  American English

  American Indians see also Native Americans

  American Social Gospel movement

  American War of Independence (1775 – 83)

  Andrewes, Launcelot, Dean of

  Anglican Church see also Church of England

  Anglican Young People’s Association

  Anglo-Saxon

  Annesley, Reverend Samuel

  Anti-Slavery Society

  Antwerp

  Antwerp Polyglot (1572)

  Apocrypha

  Aquinas, St Thomas

  Aramaic

  Aristotle

  Arnold, Matthew

  Arundel, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Astell, Mary

  Athelstane, King

  Auden, W.H.

  Augustine, St

  Austen, Jane

  Australia

  Australian Aboriginals

  Authorised Version see King James Bible

  Babylon

  Bacon, Francis

  Baker, David

  Ball, John

  Balzac, Honoré de

  Bancroft, Bishop (later Archbishop)

  Banks, Joseph

  Baptists

  Barker, Robert

  Barker, Thomas

  Bathsheba

  Bay Psalm Book, The

  ‘Be fruitful and multiply’

  Beatitudes

  Beauregard, General Pierre

  Beckett, Samuel

  Bede, Venerable

  Bega, Theodore

  Beresford family

  Bible, the

  use in the Civil War

  first version in English (1382)

  ‘interpretations’

  Latin translations

  a pit of fertile contradictions

  popularity and influence at its height

  power of

  and sex

  a well of adaptable wisdom

  the word ‘bible’

  Bible Society

  Bible Women

  Big Bang

  Bill of Rights

  Bishops’ Bible (1568)

  black Churches

  Blake, William

  Bliss, W.D.P.

  Bloom, Harold

  Bloom, Paul

  Blunden, Edmund

  Boaz

  Bobrick, Benson

  Boleyn, Anne

  Book of Common Prayer

  Booth, Catherine

  Booth, William

  Bourne, George

  Bowdler, Dr Thomas

  Boyd, Sir Robert

  Boyle, Robert

  Bradford, William: Of Plymouth Plantation

  Brinsley, John: The Third Part of the True Watch

  British and Foreign Bible Society

  British Empire

  Brontë, Charlotte

  Brontë sisters

  Brophy, Brigid

  Broughton, Hugh

  Brown, Antoinette

  Brown, George Gordon

  Bryson, Bill

  Buckingh
am, Duchess of

  Buddhism

  Bunyan, John

  Burgess, Cornelius

  Burke, Edmund

  Burton, Richard

  Butler, Josephine

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord

  Cabbala

  Cain

  Calvin, John

  Calvinism, Calvinists

  ‘Cambridge Seven’

  Cambridge University

  Campbell, Brian

  Campbell, Isabella and Mary

  Canaan

  Canaanites

  Canterbury, Archbishops of

  Simon Sudbury

  Thomas Arundel

  Thomas Cranmer

  Carey, William

  Case, Thomas

  Castalio, Sebastain

  Cavafy, Constantine

  Cavaliers

  Caxton, William

  Cecil, Robert

  Celts

  Chalmers, James

  charity

  Charity Organisation Society (later Family Action)

  Charles I, King

  Charles II, King

  Chaucer, Geoffrey Canterbury Tales

  Cheke, Sir John

  child abuse by Roman Catholic priests

  China

  China Inland Mission

  Choral Evensong

  Christian, Fletcher

  Christian Brethren see also Lollards

  Christian Commission

  Christian Evidence Society

  Christian Socialists

  Church Mission Society

  Church of England see also Anglican Church

  Church schools

  Churchill, Sir Winston

  Civic Trust

  Civil Rights Movement

  Clarkson, Thomas

  Co-operative Movement

  Codrington Plantation, Barbados

  Coke, Sir Edward

  Coke, Reverend Thomas

  Colenso, John William, Bishop of Natal

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

  College of William and Mary, Williamsburg

  Collinges, John

  Cologne

  Commonwealth

  Complutensian Polyglot (1517)

  Confederate Army

  Congregationalists

  Constantine, Emperor

  Contagious Diseases Act

  contraception

  Conway, Lady Ann

  Cook, Albert Stansborough

  Cook, Captain James

  Cook Islands

  Cook, Professor Albert Stanborough

  Cooper, Dr Lane

  Copernicus, Nicolaus

  Corpus Christi College, Oxford

  Cotton, John

  Counter-Reformation

  Coverdale, Miles

  Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury

  Crick, Francis

  Cripps, Stafford

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cromwell, Thomas

  Crystal, David

  Culverwell, Nathaniel

  Cunningham, Valentine

  Damasus, Pope

  Dame schools

  Daniell, David

  Darwin, Charles

  David and Goliath

  David and Jonathan

  Davis, David

  Davis, Jefferson

  Dawkins, Richard

  Declaration of Independence (1776)

  Defoe, Daniel

  Delilah

  democracy

  Descartes, René

  Dickens, Charles

  Diggers

  Diodati, Giovanni

  Dirac, Paul

  Disciples churches

  Dissenters

  Dissenting Protestantism

  Divine Right of Kings

  Dobneck, John

  Doddridge, Philip

  Donne, John

  Douay-Rheims New Testament (1582)

  Dryden, John

  dualism

  Duff (mission ship)

  Duns Scotus, Blessed John

  Early Modern English

  East India Company

  Ecclesiastical Commissioners

  Eddington, Arthur

  Edinburgh University

  education

  Edward VI, King

  Edwards, John

  Edwards, Jonathan

  Edwards, Sarah

  Egypt

  Einstein, Albert

  Elementary Education Act (1870)

  Eliot, George

  Eliot, T.S.

  Elizabeth I, Queen

  Elizabeth II, Queen

  Engels, Friedrich

  English Civil War (1642 – 51)

  Enlightenment

  Episcopal churches

  Erasmus, Desiderius

  Essex, Barbara J.

  Esther

  eternal life

  ethnic cleansing

  Eve

  Faraday, Michael

  Farrer, Austin

  Fast Sermons

  Faulkner, William

  Fell, Margaret

  Feuerbach, Ludwig

  Field, John

  Fifth Monarchists

  First Cambridge Company

  First Cause

  First Oxford Company

  First Westminster Company

  First World War

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott

  Flanders, Battle of

  fornication

  Fox, Charles James

  Foxe, John: Book of Martyrs

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Frei, Hans

  French Bibles

  French Revolution

  Friendly Societies

  Froude, James Anthony

  Fuseli, Henry

  Galileo Galilei

  Garden of Eden

  Gardner, Bishop John

  Geneva Bible (1560)

  German Bible

  Germanic tribes

  Gettysburg Address

  Gibbon, Edward

  Gideon Society

  Gilby, Anthony

  Gillard, Derek

  Gilmour, James

  Ginsberg, Allen

  Glorious Revolution (1688)

  Gloucester, Bishop of

  Gnostic Gospels

  Godwin, William

  Golding, William

  Google search engine

  Goostree gentlemen’s club

  gospel songs

  Gospels: Alfred the Great has them translated

  Grant, James Augustus

  Graves, Robert

  Great Awakenings

  Great Bible (1539)

  Great Indian Rebellion (1857)

  Greek language

  Greenblatt, Stephen

  Grey, Earl

  Grotius, Hugo

  Gurney, Ivor

  Guy Fawkes Day

  Hagar

  Hague, William

  Haldane, J.B.S.

  Hamburg

  Hamilton, Edith

  Hampton Court

  Hampton Court Conference

  Handel, George Frideric

  Hardie, Keir

  Hardinge, John

  Hardy, Thomas

  Harrington, James

  Harris, Richard, former Bishop of Oxford

  Harrison, Peter

  Harvard University

  Hawking, Stephen

  Hawthorne, Nathaniel

  Haynes, Alex

  Hazleton, Lesley

  Hebrew language

  Henrietta Maria, Queen

  Henry V, King

  Henry VIII, King

  Hill, Christopher

  Hill, Octavia

  Hill, Samuel S.

  Hinduism

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hogarth, William

  Hogg, James

  Holland, Thomas

  Holocaust

  Holofernes

  Holy Club

  Holy Roman Empire

  Holy Trinity church, Stratford-upon-Avon 140 – 41

  homosexuality

  Hong Xiuquan

  Hooke, Robertr />
  Hooker, Thomas

  Horsley, Bishop Samuel

  Hosea

  House of Commons

  Houses of Parliament

  Howe, William

  Howland, John

  Hull, east Yorkshire

  Hull House, Chicago, Illinois

  Hume, David

  Hunter, J. Paul

  illiteracy

  incest

  India

  Indian languages

  Industrial Revolution

  International League of Religious Socialists

  Ireton, Henry

  Isaac

  Ishmael

  Islam

  Jackson, Mahalia

  Jacob

  James I, King

  a biblical scholar

  childhood

  crowned in Westminster Abbey

  and Divine Right of Kings

  and the Geneva Bible

  inspires the KJB

  as James VI of Scotland

  journey from Edinburgh to London

  persecutor of witches

  rules for the KJB

  succeeded by son Charles

  James II, King

  Jamestown, Virginia

  Japan

  Jasper, David

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jehoichim, King

  Jehovah’s Witnesses

  Jepthah

  Jeremiah

  Jerome, St

  Jerusalem Chamber, Abbey House, Westminster, London

  Jesuits

  Jesus Christ

  and Mary Magdalene

  pamphlet attacks as an ‘imposter’

  teaching mission

  Jewel, Bishop John

  Jews

  Cabbala

  destruction of Jerusalem

  expelled from the Iberian Peninsula

  Thomas Paine on

  Jezebel

  John, St

  Johnson, Joseph

  Johnson, Dr Samuel

  Jones, David

  Joseph of Arimathea

  Josiah, King

  Joyce, James

  Judaism

  Judith

  Judo, Leo

  Kant, Immanuel

  Kelvin, Lord

  Kepler, Johannes

  King, Martin Luther

  King James Bible

  and American English

  Bancroft’s fourteen changes

  becomes the sole Bible in churches

  and Church of England schools

  claimed to be the most pivotal book ever written

  consists of sixty-six different ‘books’

 

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