Word: versions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor C. T. Copeland '82, will give a reading in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House Monday evening, at 8 o'clock. Among the selections from the King James Version of the Bible that he will read are passages form the Book of Ruth, and the Book of Revelation. He will also read the story of Naaman and Ellsha from the fifth chapter of the second Book of Kings...
John Baskett is responsible for an edition of the King James Version. This work was far from accurate. The seventh commandment, as corrected ,by Mr. Baskett, read simply "Thou shaft commit adultery"; his edition, which was soon suppressed, became famous as "the basketful of errors...
...recent efforts to correct the history of God's doings; acutely insensitive persons have, for example, deleted from certain chapters all mention of alcoholic liquor, substituting, for such, babbling nouns, or pallid and incoherent adjectives. More valuable and more reasonable are modern efforts to rewrite the King James Version in a prose idiom which more nearly approaches present day vernacular. Of such efforts, the best known...
...secretary to the president, and chairman of the New Testament Department, at the University of Chicago. When it was published, in 1923, and was printed serially in the Chicago Evening Post & other newssheets, there was a great hue and cry. Critics squeaked about the beauty of the King James Version and the inferiority of the Goodspeed Version. In point of fact, Goodspeed's translation into modern American was in some respects not as well written as the King James Version; it was less poetic, less colored, less powerful in its vocabulary. But the first business of writing...
There can be no doubt that this "musical version" of the novel of famed Author Alexandre Dumas is as good as any such production is likely to be. Mr. Ziegfeld, hitherto the most ardent sponsor of these things, has announced that he intends to produce no more of them...