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Gordon Campbell debat King James Bible: 400th Anniversary Edition.

Tickets: £2 The King James Bible is 400 years old in 2011. It has played a vital role in the development of the faith, history, language, literature and culture of the English-speaking world. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating and complex story of how this translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of how the translation was accomplished. The story does not end with the printing of that first edition, but introduces the subsequent generations who edited and interacted with the text. The present text of the King James Version differs in thousands of small details from the original edition. Campbell traces the textual history from 1611 to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford University Press in 1769. Attitudes to the King James Version have shifted through time and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. Generously illustrated with reproductions taken from early editions, this volume helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version throughout the world today. Tickets cost £2 and can be obtained by telephoning or visiting the Customer Service Department, Second Floor, Blackwell Bookshop, Oxford. Tel: 01865 333623. (oxygen_142)… (més)

Gordon Campbell debat Paradise Lost.

In his forthcoming biography of Milton, Gordon Campbell, an eminent Milton scholar, displaces the traditional image of the austere Puritan, presenting instead the youthful Anglican who, radicalized in his late twenties, became the principal apologist for the execution of Charles I and the English republic's most eloquent polemicist. In this lecture, offered in conjunction with the Morgan's exhibition John Milton's Paradise Lost, Campbell will discuss how, despite suffering blindness and the eclipse of his political aspirations, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, the greatest and most influential narrative poem in English. Cosponsored by Oxford University Press. Tickets: $15 for Non-Members; $10 for Members (palimpsestuous)… (més)