Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-ndw9j Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-09T13:33:30.213Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
This chapter is part of a book that is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core

31 - Letter to Bible Authors [Draft]

Yvonne Sherwood
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Alastair Hunter
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Philip R. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Philip R. Davies
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
Get access

Summary

This letter carries the name of the Senior Editor of Word of God Books (incorporating Jamnia Press Ltd, T&T Muratori and Oxbridge University Press) to contributors of The Bible. We are unsure whether this letter was actually sent, or the exact date of writing (some of the instructions in the letter seem not to have been carried out). The present draft is apparently a verbal transcription of a dictated text, as indicated by the appended note from the secretary, who has scribbled ‘He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.’

Dear All,

I am writing to update you on the progress of The Bible, our flagship project. Many thanks to those of you who have already submitted the first drafts of their contracted chapters. May I remind the remainder that deadlines are pressing, and that, due to the joint pressures of market and mortality, we are absolutely unable to accommodate some of the requests for extended revision periods. (Some manuscripts were originally commissioned in the Iron Age and have still not been completed centuries later, and it is now time for closure [Note to Daphne: Please underline this sentence on the copy that goes to Isaiah]).

Could we also direct you to that part of the contract that says that ‘I represent that the chapter was written entirely by me, that publication of my chapter will not violate or infringe on the rights of any other individual or company’.

Type
Chapter
Information
Yours Faithfully
Virtual Letters from the Bible
, pp. 153 - 158
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2004

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×