In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture Alister McGrath (New York: Doubleday, 2001) 340 pp., $24.95 (hardback) Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution It Inspired Benson Bobrick (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001) 379 pp., $26.00 (hardback) God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible Adam Nicolson (New York: HarperCollins, 2003) 281 pp., $24.95 (hardback) 015 Four hundred years ago, in January 1604, the newly crowned King James of England assembled England’s leading clerics at his […]
