Victorian King James Version of the New Testament: A “Selection” for Lovers of Elizabethan and Victorian Literature

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Victorian King James Version of the New Testament: A “Selection” for Lovers of Elizabethan and Victorian Literature is written by Dave Armstrong and published by Lulu.com. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1312358300 (ISBN 10) and 9781312358300 (ISBN 13).

Many revisions of the King James (Authorized) Bible of 1611 exist; even revisions of revisions have been done (ASV to NASB / RV to RSV / KJV to NKJV, etc.). The present work is a similar "hybrid." I don't know Greek, and am therefore not qualified in the slightest to actually translate (and did not translate a single word). But I know English (as a professional author) and know the Bible (as a longtime Christian apologist) very well. This work, accordingly, isn't technically a new translation at all, but rather a "selection" or collection of what I personally felt were the best renderings that maintained the KJV style as much as possible without the archaisms. When I updated the olde English language, I sought to maintain a "high" Victorian 18th-19th century style of (British) English. This NT "selects" from the following six translations (all in the public domain): 1) KJV (1611; rev. 1769), 2) Rheims (1582; rev. 1750), 3) Young's Literal (1887), 4) Weymouth (1903), 5) 20th Century (1904), 6) Moffatt (1922).