[lit-ideas] Re: KJV God -- (Was: Shakespeare)
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:42:08 -0700
His version is called, to this day, KJV -- King James Version. I find
the monologues by God in it too "Shakespeare" for my taste, with a
sprinkle of Alexander Pope and John Milton. I prefer Wycliff's God. He
speaks with the roughness one expect from a Middle Eastern.
The King James Version, often called the Authorized Version in the UK,
was the work of a committee. It was published in 1611, so Shakespeare's
works might have had some influence on its prose although I find its
rhythms markedly different from Shakespeare's. Milton was born in 1608,
and although he may have been precocious, I doubt if he was that
precocious. Pope, of course, wrote in the 18th C.
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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