Product Description

A major new edition of the King James Bible—faithfully presented for the twenty-first century

Although it is the most important book in the religious life and culture of the English-speaking world, the King James Bible, or Authorized Version of 1611, has never been perfectly represented in print. This edition makes available the translators’ intended work with a fidelity never before achieved—allowing the most read, heard, and loved book in the English language to speak with new vigor to modern readers.

The work we have long read as the King James Bible contains numerous changes, both deliberate and accidental, to the text. David Norton has scrupulously collated the established text with the translators’ original manuscripts to create this new authoritative edition. In addition, he has modernized and standardized the spelling but left intact the words and grammatical forms, and he has restored most of the original punctuation, which, unlike the standard version, largely adheres to modern practices. Finally, he presents the text in paragraph format, making this King James Bible a fully comprehensible and gratifying read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85894 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 2000 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780141441511
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
David Norton, associate professor of English at New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington, is the author of A History of the Bible as Literature and A Textual History of the King James Bible.

Customer Reviews

outstanding, important, and attractive edition of the KJV
Penguin Classics is highly to be commended for making available - in very attractive and economical form - the outstanding edition of the KJV offered by David Norton and previously published as the New Cambridge Paragraph Bible. Given the extent of the project, it was only inevitable that the first edition of this would have some errors (mostly typographical - such as 1 Corinthians 15:37). In the present volume these have been corrected.

True, it is possible to disagree with Dr. Norton on matters of method or literary/editorial judgment, but most believe that his work will stand the test of time as a remarkable, important achievement - based on the work of the orginal KJV translators and making their work, once again, enduringly readable. There is little doubt that, in time, his work will become definitive. For a college introductory course on the Bible or for people who want to engage with the KJV without being bound to all the unhelpful happenstances of the now standard editions, this Penguin Classics presentation is the one to buy. Highly recommended.

What a relief!!
This edition of the King James Version (Authorised Version) of the bible is a pleasure to handle. It is printed on white paper that is thick enough to minimise the amount of bleed-through of print from pages sharing the same sheet. It is a well bound paperback, not sewn in signatures but still well bound. The book is surprisingly heavy but in a way that adds to the pleasure of handling it.

There are some things missing
(1) it does not have chapter summaries at the top of each chapter - these summaries are common in good KJV editions.
(2) it doesn't include the marginal notes from the KJV translators.

But there are some nice features
(1) it has a good introduction
(2) it has interesting notes at the end of the volume - these notes are similar to book introductions for each of the books of the KJV
(3) it has the text set out in paragraphs on a single column which in my opinion enhances the pleasure of reading the volume.

If you like marking passages this edition will suit you well because of the quality of the paper.

If you want a bible that includes everything that the KJV translators translated (except for the marginal notes with alternate translations) this is the bible for you.

The price is very good; $10.88 (as at 4th-April-2008).

This review is for the book with ISBN-10: 0141441518

Five stars is well deserved.

The Bible (Pengin Classics)
The KJV Bible 1611 AD - the "Bible" is complete as it originally was translated - contains the Apochrypha. It is excellent literature that has been brought up to modern language level (not the original 17th century English), so it is intelligeble. This Bible still has the questionable distinctions between "Gentiles" (nations) vs. "Jews, Hebrews, Israel, 'chosen people') as does the St. Jerome's Roman Catholic translation, but should be considered as a good comprehensive original translation/interpretation of the KJV Bible.