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The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan (Oxford English Texts, Vol. 12) '94

Bunyan, John  著

Owens, W. R., Sharrock, Roger  編
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価格 \56,505(税込)         
発行年月 1994年04月
出版社/提供元
Oxford at the Clarendon Press
出版国 イギリス
言語 英語
媒体 冊子
装丁 hardcover
ページ数/巻数 512 p., 4 title-page facsimiles
ジャンル 洋書/人文科学/文学/イギリス文学
ISBN 9780198127406
商品コード 0209400526
本の性格 学術書
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内容

Bunyan died in August 1688 from a fever contracted while riding to London in heavy rain. He had made the journey to deliver the manuscript of his latest work, The Acceptable Sacrifice to the press, and to preach to a Dissenting congregation in Whitechapel. Perhaps surprisingly, in view of his enormous popularity as a writer, Bunyan left unpublished a considerable number of manuscripts. These eventually passed into the hands of his close friend and disciple, Charles Doe, a comb-maker from Southwark who, in 1692, published twelve of them, together with ten other works, in a folio volume. Apart from The Acceptable Sacrifice and the Last Sermon, which are edited from first editions of 1689, texts of the other six works in the present volume are based on those in Doe's 1692 Folio. The most ambitious of these is a lengthy commentary on the first ten chapters of Genesis. No book of the Bible had attracted more attention from learned exegates, and the middle of the seventeenth century saw fierce controversies over its interpretation. Bunyan, though clearly aware of these great debates, seldom enters into them. Instead he offers a typological reading, enabling him to draw out the contemporary significance of the Genesis story for persecuted Dissenters.