The King’s English Bible
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It
Inspired
by Benson Bobrick
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001
(379 pages; $26.00, cloth)
In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed
a Nation, a Language, and a Culture
by Alister McGrath
New York: Doubleday, 2001
(340 pages; $24.95, cloth)
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