PTW, and to mention the joke that is known as Queen James Bible.
I don't think that such a perversion should be mentioned here.
Au contraire, I believe that anything goes, as long as you don't set out meaning to insult someone or put them down or break any forum rules.
The so-called "Queen James Bible" is, literally, the King James Bible with about eight verses changed by some queer jerks that knows little about Greek and flat out changed a handful of the verses without any justification regarding alleged translation issues.
From my understanding the KING James Bible is basically the previous version changed almost completely by one dude with the sole justification that he was the super crazy king and wanted to.
I'd say any creative editing of it would be far from a "perversion" seeing what it's origins are.
This isn't even an oversimplification; you are flat-out incorrect. The
King James Bible, known originally as the
Holy Bible or officially as the
Authorized Version, was designed to improve upon the earlier translations of the Bible and to ease religious tensions. At the time of King James' rule, the two main bibles were the
Bishop's Bible, favored by the conservative Anglicans, and the
Geneva Bible, favored by the Puritans. A new version was mandated in an attempt to create better harmony between the two halves of the Church of England and to improve upon the older versions of the Bible. The translators were a
group of scholars and bishops, with access to Hebrew, Greek, and earlier English editions of Scripture, such as the Coverdale's 1535 translation or Tyndale's 1536 Old Testament.
The main influences of the King James Bible, it is true, are the
Geneva Bible and the
Bishop's Bible. Still, it must be noted that these early bibles, although official, were not without imperfections. The when read aloud, many verses simply sounded awkward, the
Bishop's Bible being especially guilty of this. The King James Bible was designed to sound good to the ear, being as it was to be read from the pulpit in church. Hence the poetic way the verses read; it was designed to be beautiful.
The influence of the King James Bible must also be noted if we are to understand its importance. After it became the bible of the Anglican Church, people started actually purchasing copies for their own homes. For quite a while, the only book one could expect to find in the average man's home was the King James Bible. People were learning to read because they had this book available to them, with the Puritans especially believing that it was their holy duty to teach others to read and write, thus they would be able to read the Word of God. It would not be stretch, by any means, to call the King James Bible one of the most important and influential books in the English language.
To have this "Queen James Bible" even exist is simply an insult. The editors this edition are just that: editors. Their changes have no basis; they simply add things as they see fit to change the meanings of the verses. In at least one case (2 Peter 2: 6 – 8, to be precise) they fail to change certain verses that go against their own "re-interpretations." A perversion is exactly what this is, its sloppy editing of a great and important translation of the Bible. To chalk this up as "creative editing" undermines the hundreds of years of effort put in by men such as Wycliffe as early as the 14th Century to get the average man to read the Bible. I'm no Onlyist, but the QJV is an insult to the Bible itself—not just the King James Version.
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