The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan: The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan - Volume XII (Hardcover)

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 Perhaps surprisingly, in view of his enormous popularity as a writer, Bunyan left unpublished a considerable number of manuscripts.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.

General

Imprint:	Clarendon Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Oxford English Texts
Release date:	March 1994
First published:	April 1994
Authors:	John Bunyan
Editors:	W.R. Owens
General editors:	Roger Sharrock
Dimensions:	221 x 146 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	508
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-812740-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-19-812740-5
Barcode:	9780198127406

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