Alexander the Corrector

Download or read book Alexander the Corrector written by Julia Keay and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The bizarre and fascinating story of Alexander Cruden, compiler of Cruden's Concordance - a 2.5 million word dictionary of quotations and gazetteer to the Bible, four times longer than the Bible itself, which remains in use to this day, nearly 300 years later." "Despite the magnitude of his achievement, Alexander Cruden is remembered less for his mighty work than for the widespread belief he was mad. Cast into a lunatic asylum as a young man following a scandal considered too shocking to reveal, his life presents an odd juxtaposition of biblical scholarship and the spectres of intrigue, incest and insanity." "Subsequent generations have accepted the diagnosis of Cruden as mad. But Julia Keay has at last uncovered the scandal, revealing the true (though no less tragic) story of his repeated incarcerations, and restoring the reputation of this lonely and misunderstood genius."--BOOK JACKET.