No aspiring author should content himself with a mere acquisition of technical rules. ... All attempts at gaining literary polish must begin with judicious reading, and the learner must never cease to ...

HOLYHEAD, Wales — When people talk about the influence of the King James Bible on the English language, they are usually thinking of the many idioms that have come into the language with a biblical ...

English-speaking Christians around the world celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible this year. First published in 1611, the King James Version has had a greater ...

Dawkins writes, “The King James Bible of 1611---the Authorized Version---includes passages of outstanding literary merit in its own right, for example the Song of Songs, and the sublime Ecclesiastes ...

The most widely published text in the English language, the King James Bible, was first released 400 years ago, this year. This version of the bible has had a lasting impact, not only on the Christian ...

A page of the original King James Bible Garry Wilmore - Flickr/Creative Commons When an archive yields an unexpected discovery, it's usually cause for celebration. But when that discovery involves the ...

Shakespeare was still alive when this Bible was published. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly after he ascended the English ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...

What better day than Easter Sunday to remember that the King James Bible is 400 years old this year? Commissioned by King James I of England, the Bible was intended to be the official and definitive ...