The Politics of the Revised Version: A Tale of Two New Testament Revision Companies

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Alan Cadwallader (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

The Politics of the Revised Version

A Tale of Two New Testament Revision Companies

Alan Cadwallader (Charles Sturt University, Australia)

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T.& T.Clark Ltd
28 May 2020

New Testaments

Series: Scriptural Traces

Alan Cadwallader explores the intricate tensions and conflicts that infused the work of revision of the Authorised Version of the Bible between 1870 and 1885. The Promethean aspirations of the venture actually generated one of the most bitter instances of the political manoeuvres involved in the translation of a sacred book. Cadwallader reveals how the public avowal of unity and fraternal harmony that accompanied the public release and marketing of the New Testament revision in 1881 and the Old Testament revision in 1885, masks fraught historical realities that threatened the realization of the project from the beginning.

Through a thorough examination of private correspondence, notebooks kept by various members of the New Testament Revision Companies in England and the United States, and other previously unstudied primary sources, Cadwallader examines and presents the complexities of the political situation surrounding the translation. He exposes the competing interests of an imperial, sovereign nation and a seriously divided Established Church floundering over its continued relevance; the ambitions and significance of Nonconformity in a nation’s highly contested religious environment; the agonistic conflicts that erupted from assertions of national and international prestige and responsibilities; and the ultimate control exercised by publishing houses that fundamentally flawed the process of revision and the public acceptance of the final product.

By: Alan Cadwallader (Charles Sturt University Australia)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 367g
ISBN: 9780567694850
ISBN 10: 0567694852
Series: Scriptural Traces
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 28 May 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface A Note on Sources Abbreviations Introduction 1. The Contested Place of the King James Version in the Nineteenth Century 2. Planning and Countering a Revision 3. A Launch and a Near-abort: the Westminster Scandal 4. Conflicts over Original Text and Method 5. Identity Formation in Engagement with the New Testament 6. Two Peoples divided by a Common Language: the Americans 7. Time and Money: the Opening for the Presses 8. The Aftermath Appendices The Members of the Two New Testament Revision Companies The Resolutions and Fundamental Rules for the Revision of the Authorised Version Bibliography Indices

Alan Cadwallader is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia.