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By Esther Lombardi, About.com Guide to Classic Literature since 2000

History of the English Bible

Friday November 26, 2004

The Brontė MythIn the prologue of "Wide as Waters: the Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired," Benson Bobrick writes, "Next to the Bible itself, the English Bible was (and is) the most influential book ever published, it gave every literate person complete access to the sacred text. Only in England was the Bible in any sense a national possession, in that it seemed to exist apart in English as an original work of art." In the Tahoe Daily Tribune find more about Benson Bobrick's "Wide as the Waters." Then, read more about studying the Bible as literature:

Discover the Bible, literature and writing.

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