Coined By God: Words and Phrases That First Appear in English Translations of the Bible
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393020452 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Included is a brief chronology of the English translations of the Bible as well as indexes for source and translator.. Arranged from A to Z, and reader-friendly regardless of faith, the book offers entries about biblical words and phrases that have moved into the general culture. Not only did hundreds of words come into English when biblical translators used them, but so did dozens of now common phrases, from "blood money" to "salt of the earth." The authors cite chapter and verse and trace the words right up to today's headlines. Each entry is a window onto the often-forgotten biblical story that gave rise to the word. A word lover's delight: 150 entries, with meanings and sources, first published in English translations of the Bible. From "appetite" to "liberty," the Bible has been one of the richest sources for introducing words and concepts into the English language. Even the names of the biblical books, from "Genesis" to "Revelation," have enlarged the English vocabulary
Stanley Malless is an author of Coined by Shakespeare. He is a professor of education at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.Jeffrey McQuain is an author of Coined by Shakespeare. He lives in Potomac, Maryland and was the researcher for the "On Language" column in The New York Times Magazine.
cute and enlightening. and contains SEX! Larry Mark MyJewishBooksDotCom McQuain, a former researcher for William Safire's weekly On Language column in The Sunday New York Times, with Mr. Malless, have compiled a book of words in English that first appeared and were coined for the King James English translation version of the Bible. Words like Adoption, Treasure, Appetite, Liberty, First Fruits, Novelty, Nurse, Bus. Interesting tidbits If you find reading dictionaries, reference books or history books fascinating, you may like this little book. It truly is interesting to me how much the English language owes to the realm of religious writing. In all fairness, interesting not fascinating, hence the rating.The text does not read like a dictionary so it isn't too hard to compre. "Fun Language History" according to Michael. I love this kind of word history and trivia. If I have a complaint, it is that this book represents only a sampling of words and phrases that came into the English language via Biblical translations. I wish there were more examples.This is a good place to start if you ever wish to research Biblical English words and phrases and how those words
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Word lovers and Bible scholars alike will delight in this compendium of the Bible's bequests to the English language. Such indispensable words as fisherman, cucumber, liberty, puberty, crime and conscience all made their entry into the written language in its pages, while deathless feats of biblical phrasemaking like "apple of his eye" and "no man can serve two masters" still pepper speeches everywhere. Malless and McQuain, authors of Coined by Shakespeare, include