Books October 2003
The best Good Book
A review of God’s secretaries, by Adam Nicolson.
Adam Nicolson has had the ill-luckor the temerityto write in the wake of two excellent books on his subject, both of which appeared in 2001: Benson Bobricks The Making of the English Bible and Alister McGraths In the Beginning. Little of what he tells us about the production process of the King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible (1611) cannot be found, in more detail and better expressed, in those precursors. Too much of Gods Secretaries is after-dinner history, written in a style which often gives pain. The compilers of the AV are described as a generous slice of Jacobean England, serving a monarch whose vision of universal peace was a fantasy too far and who wished to embrace a broad stretch of middle grounda truly eirenic ambition. One of the commissions leading members, Lancelot...
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