Early monasteries permitted monks to translate portions of the Bible into their own languages for personal devotion. But when scholars outside the monasteries began translating the Bible into English, ...
The King James Bible is the most widely read work in English literature, a masterpiece of translation whose stately cadences and transcendent phrases have long been seen, even by secular readers, as ...
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired. By Benson Bobrick. Simon & Shuster, 379 pp., $26.00. In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It ...