Gwen Ifill talks to Adam Nicolson about his book "God's Secretaries," an in-depth look at the work that went into translating the King James Bible. The book is "God's Secretaries, the Making of the ...
The Great Bible is often seen as a monument of English reform – but could it also contain the first known example of political photoshopping in early modern England? Printed in 1538-9, it was to be ...
The King James version of the Bible was a failure—at least when measured against the purposes of King James himself. According to Alister McGrath, James wanted to “destroy, discredit, or displace” the ...
Though the word Bible comes from the Greek word biblios, meaning “scrolls,” the Bible was actually the first book to be printed by movable type (instead of being written by hand). Johann Gutenberg ...
The “Wicked Bible” omits one crucial word from the Seventh Commandment. “Thou shalt commit adultery,” the Wicked Bible commands. Definitely not the message conveyed on the stone tablets Moses brought ...
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