The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford World's Classics)

This a splendid edition of the Authorized King James Version! It focusses on the Bible as literature, which makes it somewhat unique among study Bibles. The print is clear, and the paper is thicker and more opaque than that of most Bibles, thus making it very easy to read. The supplementary articles are quite scholarly and objective but not technically difficult. I have been wanting a Bible of this sort for years, but somehow this edition has escaped my notice until recently.

the king james version of the bible. with the apocrypha. is a very well written book on the lives and battles of the early Hebrews. samson killed over 4,000 men in his life time. where did the 12 lost tribes go. we now know about them in the apocrypha.

Small fat book - hopefully the binding holds out (may recover it anyhow). :) Love the print-type & having the Apocrypha in the same book. Thanks!

I mean, at this point in human evolution- approx 1610 AD- we could only expect that most Europeans would have believied in this book, and to have believed that what it says actually happened, as truly as they believe in the "fact" tht the Earth was flat. Today we dont have this excuse, We should know better, yet we still take pride in our gullability. Despite overwhelming scientific proof to the contraery, many people cling to the modern publication of this book out of sheer stubborness, or fear.
And also, back in 1600 they couldnt be expected to understand, either, that the book would be the cause for people from different ethnicities and regions of the planet to hate one another, because somebody elses fairytale was different from their own- the irony being that a book that proported to be about "love and brotherhood" ends up being the main cause or excuse for most wars and inhumanity throughout history,
Where the book,( this edition,) has its real value is in its use of English grammar and style- for 300 years the greatest writers of the english recieved their schooling from this here edition of the bible. All future translations, to this day, have been vastly inferior. This book is on a plateau with Shakespear itself- except that the writers of the bible had a vastly greater imagination than Shakespear had, and they had a lot more NERVE than he had also! Shakespear never would have expected anybody to believe that somebody could fill a boat with two of every single species on the planet, especially at a time when most of the planst had not yet even been discovered. Where did they get their hands on two duck billed platapusses? Get real! The writers of the bible did not have much regard for human intelligence it seems, but it seems also that they were correct in their disregard for peoples brains, cause many of us STILL believe this glorified nursery rhyme

Great find at a great price!!! All the excluded books had black authors. SMH. THE FREAKING ROMAN CSRHOLIC CHURCH AND THEIR BID TO AEIZE CONTROL OF RHE KINGSOM OF GOS HAS BEEN EXPOSED.

Love this edition. Print is small, but bold and readable. Includes the Apocrypha which is even better.

Concise modern comments on both context and influence of the various books of the Bible make up the closing 100+ pages of this edition of the 1611 Bible that changed the English-speaking world. Excellent versions of "King James' Bibles" are available from both commercial religious publishers and ministries such as Local Church Publishers and Britain's Trinitarian Bible Society. Given its inclusion in the Oxford World Classics series, however, this one will likely be especially used in college courses and other such settings. It may actually be easier to use in tablet format than in its heavy, paperback binding. A fine re-introduction to a classic version of the Bible.

This is a great book if you just use it to grace a shelf in your home library, but for constant reading this book will not last. The glue in the binding is too weak to hold up to the weight of this book. I had it for about 8 months and then the pages of the Book Of Psalms started falling out one by one. I have to use much clear scotch tape to hold the pages together. None the less there is some good notes on each book of the Bible and Apocrypha and well as an introduction filled with historical facts that led up to the translation of the King James Version.
I personally take good care of my books and always handle them with care, but this book has a front and back cover that starts peeling off a plastic-like film overtime. Once again my good ole scotch tape came to the rescue and I saved the covers by taping the edges all the way around. There are still air bubbles on the front and back covers, but at least for now it shouldn't be getting any worst.

This is the most complete volume of the bible we have found in the west. To bad they left out the book of Jubilees.

The pre face in this longer than most novels and of course since it is from Oxford it gives a detached point of view almost historical.
That it is a collection of written statements and has no meaning spiritual or historical but it does at least have everything there i.e.
Old Testament New Testament Apocrypha, and maps. It gives it all to you and lets you do with it as you wish, kind of like a paint brush you can make a beautiful landscape or you throw a bunch paint on the canvas smear it all around and make a mess and call it good. It is all up to how you use it.