‘Steve Reads Bestseller’ Shock For the eighteen…
‘Steve Reads Bestseller’ Shock
For the eighteen months or so, my bedside book has been the King James Bible. I�m up to Ezekiel. That�s over 900 double-columned pages. In the very readable edition I have (that is, the book is easy to hold, the text clear; I don�t mean it is translated by Tony Parsons), the Apocrypha is included too. I�ve got about a third of the book to go. Not entirely sure why I’m reading it. Once read, however, I might go on to another big, ancient book like Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy or Montaigne’s Complete Essays.
Perhaps because the KJ Bible is nearly 400 years old, the translation isn�t easy to follow, and much of it has passed me by. To give an example: Deuteronomy 10:16 is �Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.� Now what the hell does that mean? Literal interpretation anyone? Well, the Bible Gateway offers many different translations, including Young�s Literal, so I searched for the same passage using that: � and ye have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and your neck ye do not harden any more�. Well, that clears that up then.
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