A History of the Bible As Literature: From Antiquity to 1700, Vol. 1 »

This volume provides the only full account of how people have thought of the Bible and Bible translations from biblical times to the end of the seventeenth century.

List of plates; Preface; List of abbreviations;

1. 'This treasure in earthen vessels';
2. The early Christians and biblical eloquence;
3. Jerome;
4. Augustine and his successors;
5. The occult text;
6. The challenge to the translators;
7. Slaves of the vulgate;
8. Creators of English;
9. From the Great Bible to the Rheims-Douai Bible;
10. The King James Bible;
11. Presentations of the text, 1525-1625;
12. Sixteenth-century movements towards literary praise and appreciation of the Bible;
13. The struggle for acceptance;
14. 'The eloquentist books in the world';
15. Versifying the Psalms;
16. 'The best materials in the world for Poesy'; Appendix; Bibliography; General index; Biblical index.