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English bibles over the decades between the Tyndale’s New Testament of 1525 and the 1611 King James include indices, calendars, woodcuts, maps, chronologies, prefaces, prologues, prayers, epistles, philological glosses, doctrinal notes, inset historical essays, single-leaf summaries of scripture, a dialogue on predestination, a twelfth-century genealogy of Christ, a ninth-century Jewish chronicle. Their first editions, often magnificent folios, were curated by leading churchmen, who used these paratexts to speak into existence the dominant forms of post-Reformation English Christianity. Subsequent editions—smaller, more affordable, and far more numerous—were left in the hands of printers, who decided which versions to print, which paratexts to drop, add, move, or modify. The most lavish of Elizabethan bibles gets stripped almost to the bare translation; a fiercely Calvinist bible switches doctrinal sides; and a peculiar little New Testament from 1552 remains in print, with its original annotations, well into the Jacobean era. The picture of the English Reformation disclosed by these biblical paratexts differs in rather striking ways from the current one. Conformity, “things indiffe

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Author

Debora Kuller Shuger

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9780192843579

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Christian, Religion, Bible