Gods Secretaries

It seems to me that the King James Bible was a translation, commissioned by the king himself, of the Holy Bible. It was written and published not by one man but by a group of scholars, unknown to historians. We can infer who they were, but only that, we cannot know who they really were, not even their names. They fought with each other to determine the exact meaning of each verse, of each chapter, until coming to a decision all agreed upon. This translation is said to be “the greatest work in prose ever written in English.” “It is not the poetry of a single mind, not the effusion of a singular vision, nor even the product of a single moment, but the child of an entire culture stretching back to the great Jewish poets and storytellers of the Near Eastern Bronze Age.” The book was not written by those who manipulate the text for their own benefits, but in honesty and a simplicity that give power to it. It imposes an authority, order that people can follow and believe. This translation took time, years and generations to complete and finalize. It is said that this translation “dethroned the Pope, and enthroned the Bible.” This was a somewhat hard piece to comment on, but I believe this is what we are supposed to retrieve from the reading of the preface.