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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
cross posted from Life in a Shoe
Is it wrong to lust after a Bible? Take a look at this - can you believe it? And the price??? Here it is in leather for just a little more.
No, I don't need it. I love my own Bible, and this 1611 King James Bible would mostly sit on the shelf. But I would love to have it sitting on my shelf. I would love for it to sit right next to the Geneva Bible replica that I'm lusting after. sigh.
The thought of owning a replica of a 1611 King James Bible is especially exciting since we now have in our possession some real pre-1640 pages from the King James Bible. They're beautiful, and we'll be selling these on our Geneva Bible Pages site in the same formats as the pages from the ancient Geneva Bibles.
Yes, I know a little about the real King James and his reasons for commissioning the new Bible version, but it's a beautiful and poetic work based heavily upon the Geneva in the Old Testament and Tyndale's translation for the New Testament. We're making our way through some audio sermons on the history of the English church and the English Bible - facinating stuff!
I especially love the old King James for Psalms, but for daily use we read the New King James. The Reformation Study Bible is what Hubby and I have. No, the footnotes are not inspired and I think they're dead wrong occasionally but I love most of them! This is out of print now and hard to find (try here) but it's available in the English Standard version instead, which is what we bought our two oldest daughters for Christmas.
What version do you read? Why?
Is it wrong to lust after a Bible? Take a look at this - can you believe it? And the price??? Here it is in leather for just a little more.
No, I don't need it. I love my own Bible, and this 1611 King James Bible would mostly sit on the shelf. But I would love to have it sitting on my shelf. I would love for it to sit right next to the Geneva Bible replica that I'm lusting after. sigh.
The thought of owning a replica of a 1611 King James Bible is especially exciting since we now have in our possession some real pre-1640 pages from the King James Bible. They're beautiful, and we'll be selling these on our Geneva Bible Pages site in the same formats as the pages from the ancient Geneva Bibles.
Yes, I know a little about the real King James and his reasons for commissioning the new Bible version, but it's a beautiful and poetic work based heavily upon the Geneva in the Old Testament and Tyndale's translation for the New Testament. We're making our way through some audio sermons on the history of the English church and the English Bible - facinating stuff!
I especially love the old King James for Psalms, but for daily use we read the New King James. The Reformation Study Bible is what Hubby and I have. No, the footnotes are not inspired and I think they're dead wrong occasionally but I love most of them! This is out of print now and hard to find (try here) but it's available in the English Standard version instead, which is what we bought our two oldest daughters for Christmas.
What version do you read? Why?
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