![]() The Bible that they produced with their collective wisdom and skill, James hoped, would settle dissent on any number of fronts, binding together the dissident branches of the still-new Church of England, calming Puritan disquietude, perhaps even helping bring about a reconciliation of some kind with the Catholic Church. British travel writer Nicolson ( Sea Room, 2002, etc.) anatomizes the creation of the 1611 English-language Bible, perhaps the only work of art ever made by a committee.īut what a committee it was: made up some of the finest poets, translators, and scholars in the thoroughly well educated realm of King James I. ![]()
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