Translating for King James

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by Ward Allen

University Of Oklahoma Pr

Due/Published July 1994, 164 pages, paper

ISBN 0826512461

Ward Allen's Translating for King James: Notes Made by a Translator of King James's Bible is a fascinating look at how the best-selling book of all time took shape and sound. The recovery of thirty-nine amazingly legible pages of John Bois's private notes reveals how a committee of scholarly translators urged and argued, bickered and shouted into being the most glorious document in the history of the English language.