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KJV
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
King James Bible
The Bible
 
[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.
 
Pronunciation:  b´bl 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.
 
Bartlett’s Bible Quotations: Old & New Testaments
John Bartlett personally chose these 670 quotations from the Bible.
 
 
WRITINGS ABOUT THE BIBLE
 
“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.
 
“On Reading the Bible”: I, II, III
Three lectures delivered by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch at Cambridge in 1918.
 
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