{"product_id":"the-shadow-of-a-great-rock-a-literary-appreciation-of-the-king-james-bible","title":"The Shadow of a Great Rock: A Literary Appreciation of the King James Bible","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe King James Bible stands at \"the sublime summit of literature in English \" sharing the honor only with Shakespeare  Harold Bloom contends in the opening pages of this illuminating literary tour. Distilling the insights acquired from a significant portion of his career as a brilliant critic and teacher  he offers readers at last the book he has been writing \"all my long life \" a magisterial and intimately perceptive reading of the King James Bible as a literary masterpiece. Bloom calls it an \"inexplicable wonder\" that a rather undistinguished group of writers could bring forth such a magnificent work of literature  and he credits William Tyndale as their fountainhead. Reading the King James Bible alongside Tyndales Bible  the Geneva Bible  and the original Hebrew and Greek texts  Bloom highlights how the translators and editors improved uponor  in some cases  diminishedthe earlier versions. He invites readers to hear the baroque inventiveness in such sublime books as the Song of Songs  Ecclesiastes  and Job  and alerts us to the echoes of the King James Bible in works from the Romantic period to the present day. Throughout  Bloom makes an impassioned and convincing case for reading the King James Bible as literature  free from dogma and with an appreciation of its enduring aesthetic value.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966597722165,"sku":"ByrdShop_0300166834","price":27.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780300166835.jpg?v=1770570568","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-shadow-of-a-great-rock-a-literary-appreciation-of-the-king-james-bible","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}