> One wouldn't use a
>> CDROM
>> version of the King James Bible if what one needed to find was in one
>> of the
>> apocryphal books.
>
>One might, since that version does contain those books.
And not only did the original KJV include the Apocrypha (like Luther's
translation, separated out between the Old and New Testaments), it's even
available on CD-ROM, which in light of the scarcity of inclusive and
separate printed KJV editions of the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonicals surprised
me:
<http://www.wordmicro.com/bookndx.htm#BIBLES>
(You might have to scroll down a bit to reach the KJV Apocrypha.)
The first edition of the KJV without the Apocrypha was published in 1629,
18 years after the original publication, and was in keeping with the common
ambivalence of Protestantism toward those books. The decision by the
British and Foreign Bible Society to exclude the Apocrypha from their
editions alluded to in another message came in 1827, and was quite
controversial, especially on the Continent.
For paper copies, Amazon's useful BibleFinder showed me that Oxford has
printed a KJV with the Apocrypha as a recent addition to their handy
World's Classics series. Here's the URL for the BibleFinder's listings for
the hundred most popular KJV editions(not always correctly limited to the
KJV, but mostly accurate).
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ts/browse-books/12092/102-0749072-9585627>
The World's Classics edition is complete, and sounds attractive:
<http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0192835254.html>
Oxford University Press also sells a nifty parallel Apocrypha:
<http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0195284445.html>
This edition includes the Septuagint, the Douay-Rheims, the KJV, the New
Revised Standard Version, the New American Bible, the New Jerusalem Bible,
Today's English Version (also known as the Good News Bible), and the
translation of Ronald Knox. Best of all it's been remaindered for a bargain
$9.95 at Hamiltonbooks.com (item number 859028):
<http://hamiltonbook.com/search.html>
Cambridge also has a very nice and presumably complete KJV with Apocrypha
bound in calfskin for $82.99.
I was a little startled by what "a reader from Ireland" had to say in his
... errrr ... review of a separate KJV Apocrypha ($8.99) published by
Cambridge:
>Thankfully in western Europe god has been officially dead
> for well over 100 years now, but even today large sectons of the great
>uneducated Amerikkkan public are intellectually living in the dark ages.
"Officially dead"? Were you western Europeans on this medieval religion
list aware of that? Or perhaps many of you are living in the intellectual
dark ages like this poor beknighted (sic) American?
John
John McChesney-Young ** [log in to unmask] ** Berkeley, California, USA
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