In love with the word
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1201361,00.html
Adam Nicolson paints a compelling portrait of Jacobean England in his
history of the making of the King James Bible, Power and Glory, says
Nicholas Lezard
Saturday April 24, 2004
The Guardian
Power and Glory, by Adam Nicolson (Harper Perennial, £8.99)
The one thing everyone knows about the King James Bible is that
Shakespeare had a covert hand in the translation. In 1610, as the
Revision Committee met in Stationers' Hall in London to prepare the
work for publication the following year, Shakespeare was 46; and the
46th word from the beginning of the 46th psalm, and the 46th word from
the end, are "shake" and "spear" respectively.
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