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Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible ~ In Gods Secretaries Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible of the influences that shaped their work and of the

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible by ~ Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England This was the England of Shakespeare Jonson and Bacon the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible ~ If you approach this book as a comprehensive history of the writing of the King James Bible you will be disappointed If you approach this book as a series of vignettes about the Jacobean era some of which are related to the King James Bible you will be more satisfied This book has a couple of annoying habits

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible ~ In Gods Secretaries Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible by ~ I just finished Gods Secretaries The making of the King James Bible by Adam Nicholson It is mostly about the key players in the first decade of the 17th Century The book would have been a waste of 1400 had it not been for one nugget of information

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible ~ In Gods Secretaries Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the accession and ambition of the first Stuart king of the scholars who labored for seven years to create his Bible of the influences that shaped their work and of the beliefs that colored their world immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book

God’s Secretaries The Making Of The King James Bible ~ “Those who originally wrote the words of the Bible had been God’s secretaries as loyal as self suppressing as utterly disposed to the uses of the Divine call… selfabnegation in the service of greatness was the ideal… Secretaryship is one of the great shaping forces behind the King James Bible There is no authorship involved here

Gods Secretaries The Making of the King James Bible ~ Adam Nicols on is the author of Seamanship Gods Secretaries and Seize the Fire He has won both the Somerset Maugham and William Heinemann awards and he lives with his family at Sissinghurst Castle in England