The King James Bible turns 400. Teddy Roosevelt said that “no other book of any kind ever written in English or in any other tongue has ever so affected the whole life of a people.” Today the effect may be less obvious, yet it’s language remains our language.
Info obtained from Harper’s issue Re-imaging, Revising, and Refuting The Bible, article by numerous fine poets and novelists.
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