On reading the King James Version

The Holy Bible: King James Version by Anonymous

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


I bought this at Barnes and Noble for twenty dollars. It has a lot of illustrations by Gustave Dore, and the print is reasonably sized. Costco has the same book with a somewhat less attractive cover for fifteen dollars.

If you've ever wanted to read the Bible from front to back this is a good one to get. The illustrations are excellent and there are a lot of them. There is a good introduction which explains who King James was and how the translation came to be. I am not particularly religious but I find the book worth reading. It contains a lot of stuff they never taught you in Sunday school and that you'll never hear in church, but which is important to give context to the stuff they do tell you about.

My rating is for this particular edition and does not reflect my opinion of the book itself. It is pointless to judge this book by the same standard you would use for Nicholas Sparks or Phillip K. Dick. It was written by many hands and some parts are more interesting than others.





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