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GUNPOWDER,SPITTLE &

PARCHMENT:

The curious origins

of the greatest English Bible


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1.

SPITTLE: King James and his Bible


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The murder of David Rizzio, 9 March 1566


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The bodies of Henry, Lord Darnley, and his servant,found strangled in an orchard beside his house,

which had just been blown up, on the night 10 February, 1567.


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James VI and I,Daemonologie

(1597)


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Elizabeth I,Queen of

Englandand Ireland1557-1603


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A still from Roland Emmerichs idiot filmAnonymous (2011)


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A still from Roland Emmerichs appalling filmAnonymous (2011)


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Coronationof James atWestminsterAbbey, 1603


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Danil Mijtens King James I of England and VI of Scotland(1621)


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George Villiers,created firstDuke of Buckingham,assassinated 1627


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An obscene manuscript poemby Thophile de Viauaddressed to the duc deBoukinquan (Buckingham);composed around 1611

MS. Fr. 15220 B.N. (fol. 50v)


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2.

GUNPOWDER:

The explosive nature of

translating the Bible


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A mediaevalmanuscriptof the

Vulgate Bible


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Gutenbergsprinted

Vulgate Bible

of 1454

The Louvain printing of the Vulgate Bible of 1583


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p g g 5 3


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TyndalesNew Testament(1525)


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Coverdales Bible1535


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The Great Bible1539


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VIVAT REX!


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GOD SAVETHE KING!


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TheBishops Bible

1568


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TheBishops Bible

1568


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The Geneva Bible,


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The Geneva Bible,1560, 1576


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Ephesians i3-4

headers,


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defining the subject

interpolated essays

marginal commentary,

setting out Calvinistdoctrine

the actual text


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Douai-RheimsBible1582


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A crash-test dummy mock-up of the House of Lords inThe Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend(ITV, 2005).


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A crash-test dummy mock-up of King James opening parliament inThe Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend(ITV, 2005).


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The peers of the realm seconds before the blast


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PARCHMENT:

The creation of a new Bible


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Hampton Court


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The Hampton Court conference, 1604

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Psalm xci5

Thou shalt not be afraid for theterror by night

(King James Bible)

Psalm ci5


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Psalm xci5

Thou shall not nede to be afrayed forenybugges by night.

The Coverdale Bible(popularly known as the Bug Bible)

Jeremiah viii22


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Jeremiah viii22

Is there no balm in Gilead?

(King James Bible)

Jeremiah viii22


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Jeremiah viii22

Is there no tryacle in Gilead?

The Great Bible(henceforth known as

the Treacle Bible)

Genesis iii7


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Genesis iii7

they sewed fig leaves together,and made themselves aprons.

(King James Bible)

Genesis iii7


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Genesis iii7

they sowed figge-tree leaves together,and made themselves breeches.

The Geneva Bible

(generally known asthe Breeches Bible)

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Lancelot

Andrewes,

general editorof the KingJames Bible,

Bishop ofChichester

and then Ely


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Richard

Bancroft,

Archbishopof Canterbury(died 1610)


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George

Abbot,

Archbishopof Canterburyafter 1610


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The translators present their workto King James


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TheKing James

Bible1611


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A title-page thatavoids looking like

mere royalistgovernmentpropanda


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(showing the Twelve Apostles,rather than the English monarch!)


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no doctrinalcommentary,


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no doctrinalcommentary

just a few marginal

notes to explainGreek and Hebrew

terms;

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elegantly

printed,

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elegantly

printedwith

modest,uncontroversiaheadnotes.

The there was, alas, a nasty Preface,d di ti th h l Bibl


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dedicating the whole Bible :

and continuing:


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Its unpleasantly aggressive toward

R C th li d P it


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Roman Catholics and Puritans:


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But what does that matter?

We can skip the fawning

Dedication to King James;

we can forget what King Jameshimself was like.

Th Ki J Bibl ill l b


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The King James Bible will always be

the greatest English Bible

notbecause it was a fresh translation(it wasnt; 70% of the KJB

New Testament is simply Tyndale),


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butbecause it was thefinal perfectionof nine decades of developmentin English Bible translation.


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The first decade of King Jamesreign saw the mature perfectionof the English language.

It was the age of Shakespeares


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final plays, for instance.


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The political background ofthe King James Bible is sordid.

King James himself isan obscene figure.


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And his revised translationdid not fulfil his political goals.

For although its literary excellencedrove all competitors


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drove all competitors

from the market;although it soon became

the English Bible.although Papists and Puritans

embraced it

the Roman Catholicswere never reconciled to the

Church of England


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And, as for the Puritans,they rebelled against King Jamesson, the saintly Charles Stuart,


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defeated him,andmartyred him.


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The English dynastyKing James founded

was overthrown,its place eventually usurped

by princes from Germany.


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But the English BibleKing James sponsored

has never been overthrown,nor had its place usurped.

The glory of King James Bible


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has outlasted the disgraces

and scandals of his reign the gunpowder and the spittle.

In the end no one could resist it.It has dominated English literature

and the English languageever since 1611,

unaltered


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except for printers errors!

beginning with the so-calledPrinters Bible of 1612,its second year of publication:

Psalm cxix161


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Princes have persecuted mewithout a cause

was misprinted as

Psalm cxix161


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Printers have persecuted mewithout a cause

(Printers Bible of 1612)

Exodus xx14


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Thou shaltnot commit adultery.

(King James Bible)

Exodus xx14


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Thou shaltcommit adultery.

(TheAdulterous Bible of 1631;

printers fined 300;only 11 copies survive)

John viii11


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JGo and sin no more

(King James Bible)

John viii11


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JGo and sin on more

(Sin On Bible of 1716)

Psalm xiv1


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the fool hath said in his heartthere is no God

(King James Bible)

Psalm xiv1


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the fool hath said in his heartthere is a God

(The Fools Bible of 1763;

printers fined 3000;all copies ordered destroyed)


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Marko Antun Domniani[

(or de Dominis)

Archbishop of Split 1602,Dean of Windsor 1618;

died a prisoner of theInquisition in Rome 1624


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St Georges Chapel,Windsor


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Title-page,

1611


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