Authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible, 1855

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Summary: A unique look at the KJV translators-lives & qualifications
Review: This book represents one in a line of works in support of the King James Version of the Bible, a fading legacy to the faithfulness and graciousness of God. He (God) has seen it fit to preserve His Word to all generations, and has done so in a most majestic and beautiful way in the KJV. The work of McClure points to the amazing gathering of some of the greatest linguistic minds ever on one project at one time. These men knew the languages as if they were their own native tongue. This is not to say that there are no scholars of like ability today. But the miracle is that the learned minds of 54 such men could be brought to bear on this project. The KJV has been declared to be THE monumental work of the English language - this from a human perspective. From God's perspective, it is His Word faithfully preserved in English. Men are wont to ridicule the KJV today, scoffing at its inaccuracies and deficient underlying texts. But God has produced a 387 year-old masterpiece that never fails to thrill the minds of its readers, Christian or no. R.E.Rhoades writes a powerful and informative foreward to this 1858 work. In it he deals with the problems of many of the current Bible versions and identifies the Westcott/Hort Greek text as the culprit, traces the history of the English Bible, and provides a useful list of Bibles printed from 1530 to 1611, and a partial list down to the New King James Version of 1982. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the Bible in the English language, to those who wonder why it makes a difference which version we use, and to those who just love the beauty of style and form manifested in the KJV. You will be amazed at the scholarship of the translators, one of whom spent from 4 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily in the library in study, another of whom the remark is made, "at the age of five years, he had read the Bible in Hebrew"! There are not many books like this available today.