God Spake in Elizabethan English 0
John Timpane, writing at Philly dot com, considers the influence of the King James Version of the Bible in a fascinating little column. I didn’t know, for example, that, despite its introduction, it was never actually “authorized” by King James, though he “commissioned” the project.
A nugget:
It has done that in millions of lives – and in some of the most sublime English ever written. But a particular way of reading it has been made into ground zero by those who can’t stand others not belonging to their church. Or party.
