The King James Bible - The History of English (4/10)

[ashwaq14]

I Thought This was A Lebron James video

[blabla66685]

!AMEN! =]

[GreenmeGo]

good.

[softwhere07]

thats quite interesting.

[Lozima101]

Man that's one sexy bible!

[xchanxzenx]

LOL what a bunch of bullshit. The King James Bible is nothing more than a rip off of the Geneva Bible of 1560, William Shakespeare used and quoted the Geneva many times and only the Geneva...

[BigDogJang0]

@xchanxzenx

So what if it's a rip-off? King James is one of the most famous translations of the Bible and the most widespread.

[Iamepideme]

John Nielson & Royal Skousen's "How much of the King James Bible is William Tyndale's" shows an average of 83.7% of the King James New Testament to be found in Tyndale. Of the Old Testament books that Tyndale translated, 75.7% of the King James is found in Tyndale. He gave us phrases like "an eye for an eye, a tothe for a tothe", "the spirite ys willynge, but the flesshe is weeke" and words like "scapegoat".

English was gelling while Tyndale was writing; he was a prime factor in how it set.

[HeraldDRoi]

Douay Rheims was earlier, albeit less influential on language.

[KinkyKitty22]

teehee.  :)

[kensho123456]

let this be a Warning to you - go to a REAL university.

[Nantsy]

@kensho123456 Oh, you poor humorless darling!

[kensho123456]

@Nantsy You missed out the "u" in "humourless" whereas I missed out on a proper education by being duped into attending your so called "Open" so called "university"[sic] No apology required, just learn for the future and I'll leave it at that. This video is factually inaccurate and woud be funny were it not so serious for people's futures. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

[evilmick66]

@kensho123456 Your spelling correction gives away your pompousness. Not every respected dialect of english spells certain words the same way. A big example being "humo(u)r."

[kensho123456]

@evilmick66 You seem like the ideal candidate/victim for one such of these courses....on your own head be it.

[ballroombaby13]

@kensho123456 Been there, done that, fell asleep. Oh, and it relieved my parents of thousands of dollars. Plus, I don't think that anyone would believe that videos like this are a valid substitute for a "real" university. Stop trolling and do something useful with your life.

[kensho123456]

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[LauraAnne2]

What--no Chaucer?

[ssour02]

brilliant :o)