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Coined By God: Words and Phrases That First Appear in English Translations of the Bible
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Editorial Reviews (Courtesy of Amazon.com)
From Publishers Weekly 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. 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. 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. Included is a brief chronology of the English translations of the Bible as well as indexes for source and translator.
From its first vernacular translations, the Bible has been a record of the development of 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. Word lovers and Bible scholars alike will delight in this compendium of the Bible's bequests to the English language. Malless and McQuain, authors of Coined by Shakespeare, include 150 detailed, sprightly entries, organized alphabetically, that provide etymologies of words and phrases, a record of their appearances and variations in Bible versions from the first English translation by William Wycliffe in 1382 to the King James Version, as well as classic and contemporary examples of their usage in secular contexts.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
An account of 150 locutions from genesis to salt of the earth that debuted in English translations of the Bible; from a professor of education and a researcher for the New York Times Magazine's "On Language" column, respectively.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Book Description
A word lover's delight: 150 entries, with meanings and sources, first published in English translations of the Bible.
About the Author
Stanley Malless and Jeffrey McQuain are the authors of Coined by Shakespeare. Malless is a professor of education at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. McQuain, who lives in Potomac, Maryland, was the researcher for the "On Language" column in the New York Times Magazine.