About this title: Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing readers in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. 16-page insert.
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Description: Like New. 2004-Paperback-May contain minor shelf-wear. Otherwise, volume un-read and in "As-New" condition. -Used-Like New-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 8/2/2005
ISBN-13:9780060838737ISBN:0060838736
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Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Book is in very good condition. No tears or markings Dust cover has small tear top left. CRT-24. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 281 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fine in Very Good jacket. Book Seller # BBRD406, 6.2 inches by 9.25 inches, 281 pages. Stated "First Edition" with a "1" in the number line. Minor wear only to the dust jacket mostly along the edges but No Tears. The hinges and binding are good and the interior and exterior are clean. NOT an Ex-Library copy. Printed on acid free paper. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060185169ISBN:0060185163
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9780060185169ISBN:0060185163
Description: Very Good. HARDCOVER. Very Good-Condition. Binding tight, pages clean. Stated first edition. No visible publisher's price. Some blunting at head and ail of spine. Light wear to edges and corners of Dust Jacket. Nice reading copy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN-13:9780060185169ISBN:0060185163
Description: Like New. Like new hardcover in excellent condition with dust jacket intact, no writing, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, Christian business. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780060185169ISBN:0060185163
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 304 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
"All in all, I liked this book. I thought Nicolson liked to bring up the worst of people sometimes but other times he was really balanced. This is not a fast read because of all the detail. Nicolson has done lots of research about the men who made up the six companies of translators for the King James Bible. We learn lots about King James and his court and the political reasons behind the translation. King James wanted peace so per his instruction the "words of this translation,then, could embrace both gorgeousness and ambiguity, did not have to settle into a single doctrinal mode but could embrace different meanings, either within the text itself or in the margins. This is the heart of the new Bible as an irenicon, an organism that absorbed and integrated difference, that included ambiguity and by doing so established peace. It is the central mechanism of the translation, one of immense lexical subtlety, a deliberate carrying of multiple meanings beneath the surface of a single text." That helps explain the loss of some plain and precious truths.
I enjoyed the discussion on the final committee that took the other committees' work and examined it again. Fortunately someone was taking notes so we have more information about how it worked than we have about the original six companies. One example, "For God's attitude to those who request something, the final printed version says that he gives 'and upbraideth not'. Someone at the meeting suggested 'without twitting, or hitting in the teeth', which were rejected, presumably on grounds of decorum: God would not twit or hit in the teeth." That was my favorite.
Nicolson has a nice respect for and love of the Bible and its literary genius and this shows in his treatment of this subject. Like I said, not a fast read but still very readable."
"I really enjoyed this book. James I of England (James VI of Scotland) commissions some 50 scholars/flawed men to provide a translation of the Bible that will unite his Kingdom. This is just after Elizabeth I and after Shakespeare. English has evolved into a beautiful, expressive language. If I remember correctly, the project took some twenty years."
"This was a difficult book to read which was dissapointing. My children and I have been learning about this hisorical era and just finished books on the Reformation, naturally leading to this time period. I was very excited to read about the translators of the King James Bible and more about King James himself. I was surprised by how ungodly a portrait they made. It is hard o see how such a group could be the people who brought us the version of the Bible read by millions. Thankfully it leads me to believe that God had a hand in bringing forth His truth even through worldly and undeserving men. I am not sure I would recommend this book because it is quite tedious. I think the reading of it should have been more enjoyable, but when you are learning about men that are hard to emulate it is not very inspiring."
"DNF - At first I really enjoyed this book but then it got bogged down in detail. It is more about the church in the early 1600's than it is about the making of the bible. In fact the author even says there is little information about the actual translation and compliation of the King James Bible."
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