Tag: King James Bible
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Pray Tell onstage: Written on the Heart
If you are anywhere near London, do try to get to the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Written on the Heart before it closes on 19 May. The play is about the translation of the King James Bible. In a word, it is splendid, one of the best plays I have seen in years.
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The King James Bible
Literature or sacred Scriptures?
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NYTimes on the KJ Bible… and the new missal
The most powerful religious language is often a little elevated and incantatory, even ambiguous or just plain hard to understand.
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Celebrations of the King James Bible
The King James Bible turns 400 this year.
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A fetish for the Bible
by Giles Fraser, writing in The Guardian. “The King James version has been manipulated for 400 years. Save it from the text obsessives.”