/lit/ - Literature

I've read a large chunk of a few different translations (Jerusalem, New English, RSV, KJV). The more I went through other translations the more I started to agree with Robert Alter on how it's a shame that less and les people give time to the KJV to appreciate what Tyndale and the committee did for English prose as time has gone by. There's something in the rhythm of the KJV that the others just can't match up to, they just don't have that same sticking power.

I still think it's pretty useful to have a recent translation like RSV/ESV to have a simpler version to precisely understand what's happening at all times (and the RSV/ESV are more updated with text sources). But even if it might feel a bit weird at first, the KJV is a lot easier to read the more you get into it.

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Fucking prots