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Introduction: the King James Bible and its reception history HannibalHamlin and Norman W. Jones; Part I. The Language of the King James Bible: 1.Language within language: King James' steamroller Stephen Prickett; 2. Theglories and the glitches of the King James Bible: Ecclesiastes as test-caseRobert Alter; Part II. The History of the King James Bible: 3. Themateriality of English printed Bibles from the Tyndale New Testament to theKing James Bible John N. King and Aaron T. Pratt; 4. Antwerp Bibletranslations in the King James Bible Gergely Juhasz; 5. Philip Doddridge'sNew Testament: The Family Expositor (1739-56) Isabel Rivers; 6. Postcolonialnotes on the King James Bible R. S. Sugirtharajah; 7. From monarchy todemocracy: the dethroning of the King James Bible in the United States PaulC. Gutjahr; Part III. Literature and the King James Bible: 8. Milton,anxiety, and the King James Bible Jason P. Rosenblatt; 9. Bunyan's Biblicalprogresses Hannibal Hamlin; 10. Romantic transformations of the King JamesBible: Wordsworth, Shelley, Blake Adam Potkay; 11. Ruskin and hiscontemporaries reading the King James Bible Michael Wheeler; 12. To theLighthouse and Biblical language James Wood; 13. The King James Bible asghost in Absalom, Absalom! and Beloved Norman W. Jones; 14. The King JamesBible and African American literature Katherine Clay Bassard; 15. Jean Rhys,Elizabeth Smart, and the 'gifts' of the King James Bible Heather Walton;Chronology of major English Bible translations to 1957; Chronology of EnglishBible translations since 1957; King James Bible bibliographies: I. The KingJames Bible: its background, history, and reception; II. Theliterary-cultural influence of the King James Bible.