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Critics of the Bible, 1724–1873
John Drury
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Paperback. English critics were brilliant initiatiors and exploiters of Biblical criticism. This book provides the only available collection of Biblical criticism from this important period of critical enquiry, the 18th and 19th centuries. It features excerpts from critics like Coleridge, Blake and Arnold. Editor(s): Drury, John. Series Editor(s): Storey, Graham. Series: Cambridge English Prose Texts. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 280. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear and sunning to spine
English critics were brilliant initiators and exploiters of biblical criticism. This momentous exercise, whereby the 'Holy Scriptures' became the object of human critique independent of church control, is illustrated by John Drury in the present volume with excerpts from such famous critics as Coleridge, Blake and Matthew Arnold, and lesser names such as Collins and Deist and Bishop Sherlock. Robert Lowth's famous lectures on the Psalms, which had an important influence on Blake and Christopher Smart, are well represented here, as is the famous contribution to Essays and Reviews by Benjamin Jowett. This book provides the only available collection of ... Read more
English critics were brilliant initiators and exploiters of biblical criticism. This momentous exercise, whereby the 'Holy Scriptures' became the object of human critique independent of church control, is illustrated by John Drury in the present volume with excerpts from such famous critics as Coleridge, Blake and Matthew Arnold, and lesser names such as Collins and Deist and Bishop Sherlock. Robert Lowth's famous lectures on the Psalms, which had an important influence on Blake and Christopher Smart, are well represented here, as is the famous contribution to Essays and Reviews by Benjamin Jowett. This book provides the only available collection of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
Cambridge English Prose Texts
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521338707
SKU
KJE0001002
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