Wide As the Waters : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution

Wide As the Waters : The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution

Benson Bobrick

Språken
FörlagSimon & Schuster
ISBN9781451665857

This gripping and accessible work of history, religion, and literary criticism chronicles the first English translation of the King James version of the bible—through the tumultuous reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary Tudor, and Elizabeth I, a time of fierce contest between Catholics and Protestan