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The Book of Common Prayer A Biography - Lives of Great Religious Books
Author: Alan Jacobs
While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer book has saturated ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691154817
ISBN-10: 0691154813
Publication Date: 9/29/2013
Pages: 248
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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