The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus

by David Grossman

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Conversations
58	1	452,799	(4.4)	None
The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

fidothe, rubyman, s_p_a_b, hperloff, Simon1FT, hypotactic, TullamoreChurch

▾Tags

Abrahamic religions (1) Arranged in paragraphs (1) Bible (12) Bibles BIB (1) biblical (1) box set (1) Christianity (9) David Grossman (1) ebraismo 2 (1) faith (1) fiction (1) Formal equivalence (1) Judaism (1) Karton 06 (1) literature (2) litprose (1) mini (1) NL (1) non-fiction (1) Old Testament (2) paperback (1) Publisher (Others) (1) reference (1) religion (7) Scripture (2) Single column (1) Storia delle religioni (1) Text only (1) translations (1) Tyndale (1)

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

▾Member reviews

part of the canongate project to publish as works of literaturte certain biblical books with an introduction by modern writers

great idea (

)

vicarofdibley | Apr 10, 2006 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors

▾Series and work relationships

Belongs to Publisher Series

Pocket Canons Bible

Is contained in

La Bible by Isaac-Louis Le Maistre de Sacy

Holy Bible by Unknown (indirect)

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

The Second Book of Moses, Called Exodus

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary