The Bible in the Making: The Story of the Bible as a Book, Its Composition, Translation, and Dissemination

447 pp. The story of the Bible as a book, its composition, translation, and dissemination. CONTENTS: The Setting of the Old Testament; The Writing of the Old Testament; How the New Testament Took Shape; Apocryphal Books; Handing Down the Bible in the Ancient Church; A Thousand Years Till Printing; First Printing of the English Bible; Competitive Versions; The Most High and Mighty Prince; The Making of the King James Version; The Makers of the King James Version; The King James Version in Production; The Background of the Revised Version; The Revised Version; Independent Modern English Versions; The Revised Standard Version; Early Roman Catholic Versions in English; Modern Roman Catholic Versions in English; Jewish Translations; The Bible Today; Biblical Thinking: The Barrier Beyond Words. Among the subjects covered by the fourteen appendices are: A Comparison of Passages in Various English Versions; Modern Languages Into Which the Bible Has Been Translated; Some Misleading Words in the King James Version and Their Correction; Non-Biblical Sayings of Jesus; Specimens of the Dead Sea Scriptures in English Translation; Table Showing the Number of Chapters, Verses, and Words in the Bible.