By Dallas Robbins “That book changed my life!”: a cliché right up there with “the more I learn, the less I know.” No self-respecting person should ever utter it in public. But clichés stick around for a reason, and as I revisit them from time to time, I always find something beneath the surface worth …
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Happy Birthday, KJV
This year, the King James Version of the Holy Bible turns 400 years old. Reflecting on this quadricentennial reminds me of something literary critic Edmund Wilson once wrote: Here it is, that old tongue, with its clang and its flavor, sometimes rank, sometimes sweet, sometimes bitter; here it is in its concise solid stamp. Other …