#178 King James Bible: Background, Creation & Influence
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2018
⏱️ 15 minutes
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King James Bible: Background, Creation & Influence
Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series
Our interview with Steven Galbraith and Hannibal Hamlin, who, together, both will provide us a fascinating overview of the dramatic history of English Bible translation, the reformers who shaped the bible, despite opposition from the Church, and the Bible's significant political influence.
The King James Bible of 1611 is one of the most influential books in the English language. The creation of this landmark translation was the culmination of a long and often unquiet history of the Bible in English dating back as far as 1000 A.D., when portions of the Bible appeared in Old English. It built upon the struggles of religious reformers who risked their lives by committing the “heresy” of translating the Bible into English. It borrowed freely from the labors of scholars tasked with new translations once the religious and political tides had changed. The men chosen to work on the King James Bible revised the translations of their predecessors with no idea of how influential and pervasive their results would be even four centuries later.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Not Old Better Show and your host Paul Wolsey. |
| 0:05.0 | As part of our Smithsonian Associates Art of Living series, |
| 0:12.0 | our guest today on the Not Old Better show are |
| 0:14.6 | Hannibal Hamlin and Stephen Galbraith. Hannibal Hamlin is a professor of English at the |
| 0:19.7 | Ohio State University and Stephen Galbraith is the former Folger Shakespeare |
| 0:24.0 | Libraries curator of rare books. Together both will provide us a fascinating |
| 0:29.6 | overview of the dramatic history of English Bible translation, the reformers who shaped the Bible |
| 0:36.1 | despite opposition from the church, and the Bible's considerable political influence. |
| 0:41.2 | No book in any language has ever been printed so often in so many millions of copies |
| 0:46.6 | and distributed so widely around the world as the King James Bible. |
| 0:51.2 | Where the British Empire went, so went the King James Bible. Where the British Empire went, so went the King James Bible. Where evangelical Christian |
| 0:56.3 | missionaries went. So went the King James Bible. |
| 1:00.0 | No book has had a greater influence on the language, literatures, and cultures of English-speaking |
| 1:05.3 | peoples, especially in the United States. |
| 1:08.6 | The King James Bible has shaped political oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Barack Obama and we hear its words and |
| 1:14.7 | rhythms in the literature of Whitman and Dickinson, Melville and Morrison, Margaret |
| 1:18.9 | Atwood and Marilyn Robinson. That of course is our guest today, Hannibal Hamlin, who along with co-presenter |
| 1:24.7 | Stephen Galbraith will be at the Smithsonian Associates program presenting a day-long |
| 1:28.9 | series about the King James Bible, its background, creation, and influence Saturday, March 17, 2018, 930 a.m. at the Ripley |
| 1:38.3 | Center in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:40.5 | Please join me in welcoming to the not-old better show via Skype, Hannibal Hamlin, and Stephen Galbraith. |
| 1:47.0 | Hannibal Hamlin and Stephen Galbraith, welcome to the show. |
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