Category: Volume 6 2010-2012
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The King James Bible
Translating as a Political Act Glen Edward Taul Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University October 6, 2011 It was not part of the agenda. The delegates to the Hampton Court Conference had not gathered on a wintery day to argue for another English translation of the Bible. They convened, at…
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The Sacred Oratorio
Handel and the King James Bible Deborah Rooke Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University, September 22, 2011 The accompanied tenor recitative “Comfort ye my people” with which Handel’s Messiah begins is probably one of the best- known musical settings of biblical language (apart from the Hallelujah chorus, naturally!). It gives…
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King James Bible at 400 900 Years of Getting the Bible into “English”
An Illustrated Lecture Joel F. Drinkard, Jr. Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University November 10, 2011 Introduction The year 2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the appearance of the King James Bible. This article looks back briefly at 900 years of historical Bible copying and translating, the 900 years before…
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Anchor Point: The King James Bible and English Literature
Robert L. Doty Lecture, 400th Anniversary Celebration of the King James Bible Campbellsville University October 6, 2011 A note on the English language may be useful as we begin. Geoffrey Chaucer, who was writing in 1400, used East Midland dialect of Middle English. An uninitiated person who looked at his works would need to hear…