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To: NEWwoman

I usually quote from the King James Bible, with Apocrypha, even though I’m a Catholic. It has been by far the most-used and most-quoted Bible in the English speaking world.

There are a few minor problems with the translation, but nothing serious. And nothing like the problems with the modern, politically correct translations, which are far less accurate and stunningly ugly in style.

When I taught the Bible as literature, I used the Revised Standard Version, based on the KJV but slightly modernized. But that has been replaced by the New RSV, which is a major step backward into political correctness and stupidity. So I find myself continuing to go back to the KJV.


5 posted on 12/11/2011 2:29:59 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

From some of my reading, I understand the King James Version included the Apocrypha, until the 19th century. (In fact, in England there were heavy fines if the Apocrypha was not included in the early days.)

It is a beautiful version. And as any translation, some things are lost in translation.


11 posted on 12/11/2011 3:02:15 PM PST by NEWwoman (God Bless America)
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