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Politics of the Revised Version

by Alan Cadwallader

"Alan Cadwallader examines how the revision of the Authorized Version (that ran from 1870 until its published release in 1881 and 1885) generated one of the most bitter instances of the political interests involved in the translation of a sacred book. Cadwallader shows how a public avowal of unity and fraternal harmony that characterized the public release and marketing of the New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in 1885 masks a tense historical reality that has not previously been reconstructed. Through a thorough sifting of private correspondence, notebooks kept...

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