Posted on 11/17/2011 7:03:02 AM PST by US Navy Vet
Queen Elizabeth II attended a ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey Wednesday to mark the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, often considered the most influential book ever printed in the English language.
It came about when King James I summoned a conference at Hampton Court Palace near London in 1604, hoping to thrash out differences between Church of England bishops and Puritans. Failing to make progress on other issues, Puritan leader John Reynolds proposed a new translation which emerged in 1611
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I hope you are being sarcastic.
I believe the KJV is currently in the public domain. Therefore, it’s the cheapest English language translation of the Bible to print.
That is SO not true! I was touring England last year and to me it seemed like it was 80% Muslim. Every place I went I was stopped by Muslims asking if I were a Jew and when my wife talked they told me to shut up my dog and to keep her “properly covered” as it is the law. When is the last time YOU were in England? Or should I say “Musland”?
Where did you go, out of interest?
I’m in England two or three times a year, most recently at the time of the Royal Wedding. The fact is, the vast majority of England is a mostly white, at least nominally Christian nation.
There are some areas of London (Tower Hamlets, Hackney, and Bradford, for example) and a few other cities (Birmingham or Blackburn, again, as two examples) where there are a lot of Muslims but those places are not typical. Judging England as being an Islamic nation based on them would make about as much sense as deciding America was a Jewish nation by observing what you saw if wandering around parts of Brooklyn or Manhattan in New York.
Tourists often stick to London and a few other cities, especially on tours, when they just drive through England between cities as fast as they can. They don’t get to see most of England. Unfortunately.
The muslim population tends to be concentrated in certain areas. Often the more touristy bits too. If you go to those places, then obviously you will see them. If I did a touring holiday of Pennsylvania I might very well conclude that 80% of Americans were Amish. If I visited salt lake city I might conclude 80% were mormon. If I visited Atlanta Georgia (which I have) I might think 80% were black.
Rest assured, the vast majority of the population of England is very much white anglo-saxon.
Reads like it was written by Shakespeare—a work of pure stand alone literary art regardless of the subject.
Old English was the language of conversion when true believers broke the Catholic yoke—it still conveys best the original feelings of our Christian ancestors.
Oddly enough, even tho the KJV I got from the Mormons was recently published, it was NOT altered. I went to a comparative website that mentioned a big list of scripture changes that Joseph Smith, Jr. made, and NONE of them are in the version I got from them. So, they evidently didn't change my version, but I understand that they do have their own version available.
A lot of the language and terms they used in the KJV Bible were already archaic when it was written. They (the translators) wanted to make it sound like it was full of ancient wisdom.
Personally, though, I can see the flaws in translating something from latin and/or greek that had already been translated from the original hebrew/aramaic...
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