To the chagrin of the UK’s Secular Society, which has protested, as the Guardian reports this week, that schools are “awash in Bibles,” every state school in England is going to get a new copy of the 1611 King James Version by the spring.
Sure the British are committed to the cultural legacy of the Book, now celebrating its 400-year anniversary, but what has it meant in America? A three-day conference, “An Anglo-American History of the KJV,” was held in DC this fall at the Folger Shakespeare Library. Among the high points were the following:
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