 First Edition of the Authorized Version, 1611. (British Museum.) |
| Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. |
| —1 Corinthians 13:1 |
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| The Bible |
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| [Gr.,=the books], term used since the 4th cent. to denote the Christian Scriptures and later, by extension, those of various religious traditions.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. |
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Pronunciation:  b ´b l from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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- The Holy Bible. 1999.
The culmination of English translations of the Bible, the American Bible Society’s King James Version modernizes the first edition of 1611.
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- Bartlett’s Bible Quotations: Old & New Testaments
John Bartlett personally chose these 670 quotations from the Bible.
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- WRITINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE
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- “The ‘Authorised Version’ and its Influence”
Albert S. Cook charts the influence of the Bible in English in this chapter from the Cambridge History of English Literature.
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- “On Reading the Bible”: I, II, III
Three lectures delivered by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch at Cambridge in 1918.
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