According to Winston Churchill: “The scholars who produced this masterpiece [the Bible] are mostly unknown and unremembered. But they forged an enduring link, literary and religious, between English-speaking people of the world.” Maybe they were not as unknown as Churchill thought. This year is the 400th anniversary of the dear old Authorised Version of the Bible, and as there was no actual publication date in 1611 celebrations have continued for the whole year. Nearly all the books that have come out for the occasion, emphasising its importance for the English language, have called it the “King James Bible”, which is…
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