The Bible in English: Its History and Influence.(Book Review)

David Daniell. The Bible in English: Its History and Influence. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2003. Pp. xx, 899. $40.00. ISBN 0-300-09930-4.

When I first set out to read David Daniell's new book, I was looking forward to seeing how the author of a very fine biography of William Tyndale would handle the entire history of the English Bible. Unfortunately, the present work is a major disappointment. Daniell's judgments are often tendentious and his scholarship poor. The work is filled with errors of fact.

First, the tendentiousness. Daniell writes as a man of faith, and ...