[Sca-cooks] period date info?
grizly at mindspring.com
grizly at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 22 20:11:14 PDT 2001
sca-cooks at ansteorra.org wrote:
<<<< SNIP . . . I got an electronic copy of the King James Bible from a Project Gutenberg mirror. A search for 'date' comes up with no hits. Not one. I was very surprised. I wondered if maybe it was the text editor I was using, but several programs later, same result.
Seems that dates aren't mentioned at all. I wonder if KJV literalists
eat dates? >>>>>
You will likely find that the King James be literarily valuable, but lacks any usefulness whatsoever as a research tool. There are many better versions to use. I recommend one of the commentary versions that include historical and cultural reference along with the translated texts. Use KJV for serious research only as a last resort . . . . as it was not written by scholars necessarily as scholarly work, but by scribes seeking to please a King's Commission. Not invalid, just not research material.
niccolo difrancesco
(Deway version ain't tops either . . . )
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