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    Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
    Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
    Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
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    Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible

    By Mark Ward

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    The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?

    The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years—and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In Authorized Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.#In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In Authorized Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"—and what we would call "the man on the street."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLexham Press
    Release dateJan 24, 2018
    ISBN9781683590569
    Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible
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    Mark Ward

    Mark Ward, author of Virtual Organisms, is an Associate Professor of Statistics at Purdue University.  He has held visiting faculty positions at The George Washington University, the University of Maryland, the University of Paris 13, and a lecturer position at the University of Pennsylvania.  He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Mathematics with Specialization in Computational Science (2005), M.S. in Applied Mathematics Science from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (2003), and B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Denison University (1999).  His research interests include probabilistic, combinatorial, and analytical techniques for the analysis of algorithms and data structures.  Since 2008, he has been the Undergraduate Chair in Statistics at Purdue, and the Associate Director for Actuarial Science. Dr. Ward is currently the Principal Investigator for two NSF grants, "MCTP: Sophomore Transitions: Bridges into a Statistics Major and Big Data Research Experiences via Learning Communities" (NSF-DMS #1246818, 2013-2018), and "Science of Information: Bringing Many Disciplines Together" (NSF-DUE #1140489, 2012-2014).  He is also Associate Director of the Center for Science of Information (NSF-CCF #0939370, 2010-2015).  He and his wife homeschool their four children.

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      A very simple and upfront book concerning the dangers of only reading the King James Bible if one doesn't understand it. He makes the case that Christians should be reading the Bible in their own vernacular based upon Paul's command in 1 Corinthians 14. He argues that the King James is part of Church history and should be valued because of that, yet the most important point in reading the Bible is to understand it. And since most people confess that they cannot understand the 17th century English, then we should pursue a Bible translation in the language that we speak today. Overall, a very interesting read that encourages Christians to use the wealth of Bible translations we have and be diligent to understand the Bible.

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