Authorized: The Use and Misuse of the King James Bible

**The King James Version has shaped the church, our worship, and our mother tongue for over 400 years. But what should we do with it today?**  
  
The KJV beautifully rendered the Scriptures into the language of turn-of-the-seventeenth-century England. Even today the King James is the most widely read Bible in the United States. The rich cadence of its Elizabethan English is recognized even by non-Christians. But English has changed a great deal over the last 400 years-and in subtle ways that very few modern readers will recognize. In *Authorized* Mark L. Ward, Jr. shows what exclusive readers of the KJV are missing as they read God's word.#In their introduction to the King James Bible, the translators tell us that Christians must "heare CHRIST speaking unto them in their mother tongue." In *Authorized* Mark Ward builds a case for the KJV translators' view that English Bible translations should be readable by what they called "the very vulgar"-and what we would call "the man on the street."Read less