|
Written by Nicholas King SJ
|
|
Monday, 10 January 2011 20:11 |
|
 Nicholas King SJ teaches New Testament and Greek at Campion Hall, Oxford and in the Oxford Faculty of Theology.
It is a pleasure to be welcoming in these pages the quatercentenary of that great monument and guiding light of the English language, the King James Version. It is necessary, of course, to make certain clarifications when we speak of this massive translation. It was not, as is sometimes oddly supposed, the work of James VI of Scotland, James I of England himself, for all that he was an alert and interested theologian, with a greater share of biblical scholarship than many monarchs have had.
|
