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Tuesday, October 14, 2003 Book ReviewPower and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James BibleThe Age wrote this up under the heading "The work of a committee that worked", and the book tells the tale of how the various committees worked to give us the KJV bible. Judging by the reviews, this is a worthwhile book. The Financial Review review is a good one, starting: The King James Bible has long been established as the best literary work ever written by a committee, and in Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible Adam Nicolson has set himself the agreeable task of finding out how this masterpiece came to be. The Guardian review was quite detailed; for instance: It was not a flawless piece of work, the Pauline Epistles being particularly troublesome, with potential confusion hidden in endless subordinate clauses. Nor was it wholly original, some parts of it being lifted wholesale from William Tyndale's Bible and many phrases transposed from the Catholic Douai Bible. But what is uniquely brilliant about the Authorised Version is its feeling for the cadences and rhythms of the language, its soaring flights of imagination and "its air of irreproachable authority, which is the essence of sacred ritual". And here's a review by a Uniting Ch. minister, for example: The KJV, as Nicolson points out, served us well and still has grace and beauty that can enrich the church and culture of today. But, as Nicolson seems to admit when he says he believes but does not attend, the church of today needs new tools to understand God, even if the tools are not as sharp as those of the translators of the KJV. For those for whom the KJV was important in their faith journey, or for anyone who wishes to understand our cultural heritage, this book is required reading. The Amazon site gives some further reviews, and a discount on the book. And in the US it's got a different title "God's Secretaries". # posted by geoff @ 4:44 pm 0 comments
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