{"product_id":"a-shaken-bible-second-edition-paperback","title":"A Shaken Bible: Second Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSteve Hanson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Honest, not evasive of complicity... it blasts beyond traditional authority, be that religious or scholarly.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eEwan Fernie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Shaken Bible\u003c\/em\u003e began as a casual experiment after a Gillian Rose conference. It then developed into a hyper-redacted overhaul of the King James Bible of 1611, which returned the heretics and ranters to its pages, Blake included. It also gave the bible a proletarian gob. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late Andrew Shanks-who contributed the preface-correctly identified a 'moral longing' in the urge to return to these texts, but this can only ever be a deracinated exercise, in our continuing epoch of nihilism, as Nietzsche defined it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Shaken Bible evolves slowly, across editions. This new edition also presents a revised essay on the text by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSTEVE HANSON \u003c\/strong\u003ecompleted an MA and PhD at Goldsmiths. \u003cem\u003eSmall Towns, Austere Times\u003c\/em\u003e was published in 2014, by Zero Books. Following a fire in a rental house which nearly killed him-due to a faulty fusebox-he switched to experimental writing. \u003cem\u003eProceedings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe General\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLast Days of Pompeii: A Comedy \u003c\/em\u003eare just some of the titles published in the intervening years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67972740251955,"sku":"9781916541337","price":32.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/0xiBzL-CAj9781916541337.webp?v=1794433837","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-shaken-bible-second-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}