Originally published in The Jewish Chronicle, 1982. The Making of the English Bible. By Gerald Hammond. Carcanet New Press, Manchester. £9.95. Gerald Hammond shows how the translators responsible for the Authorised Version carried out their task of producing this marvel of English literature, capturing so skillfully the cadences of the original Hebrew (the emphasis is on…
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