Elisabeth Mahoney has written a very nice review in
The Guardian of The Story of King James Bible series I worked on and blogged about.
The Story of the King James Bible (Radio 4) is a luxurious thing: three programmes, over three days, tracing the history of what presenter James Naughtie described as "a literary masterpiece" for "people of many faiths, and none". Yesterday's opening instalment, recorded at Hampton Court, revelled in detail and evocative soundscapes as Naughtie and gathered experts moved through the palace: footsteps on stone stairs, the sudden whoosh of boomy sound as they move into a particularly high-ceilinged space; classy readings from the Bible. Naughtie probed his guests with questions that got beneath the surface of a historical event – a conference held at Hampton Court in 1604 – to draw a picture of the meeting in all its religious and political complexity. There was a strong sense of everything in flux as James I ascended the throne, and also the monarch grabbing his chance to re-emphasise the relationship between king and church as a divine, rather than earthly, institution. He had disliked the earlier Geneva Bible, we heard, because of annotations in the margin, especially one that appeared to question the king's authority. In his Bible, "there were no marginal notes that were interpretative". The conference was rumbustious, with those gathered shocked by James's coarse language. "I give a turd for your argument," he told one Puritan speaker.
Thanks Elisabeth for the kind words. Here are another couple of pictures I took in Oxford.
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| Another bible to study |
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