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When God Spoke English - The Making of the King James Bible (Paperback)
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When God Spoke English - The Making of the King James Bible (Paperback)
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A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James
Bible. James VI of Scotland - now James I of England - came into
his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival
political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne,
but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was
bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his
God-appointed position and unify his kingdom. Out of these
circumstances, and involving the very people who were engaged in
the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace and
lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47
scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London translated the Bible,
drawing from many previous versions, and created what many believe
to be the greatest prose work ever written in English - the product
of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England
of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and Bacon; but also of extremist
Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings and
crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation
emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than
Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It
is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, and the
foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous and
deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man:
not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a
bestseller, and has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a
fascinating and dramatic account of the early years of the first
Stewart ruler, and the scholars who laboured for seven years to
create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of
ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch and London at a time
unlike any other.
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