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| The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford World's Classics) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Robert Carroll, Stephen Prickett
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Category: Book
List Price: $18.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 39744
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1824
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 2.5
ISBN: 0199535949
Dewey Decimal Number: 220.52032
EAN: 9780199535941
ASIN: 0199535949
Publication Date: May 15, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
Inexpensive KVJ June 2, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is a nice, relatively inexpensive KJV made by oxford. It does contain the Apocrypha and some rather liberal study notes. It is a large paperback with nice thick pages and clear print. The original KJV included the Apocrypha inbetween the testaments, as this one does. The Apocrypha is not recognized by Protestant churches as being scripture but is accepted by the Catholics and Orthodox.
This one also contains the full wording of the KJV translators introduction but does not contain their notes. If you want a complete copy of the original KJV, Hendrickson publishing makes a fascimile which is very nice, complete with old English spelling. This paperback Oxford bible is a cheaper alternative.
 Christians avoid at all costs!!! April 29, 2007
19 out of 35 found this review helpful
No Christian should touch this edition with a ten-foot pole. While it does offer the beautiful KJ text with Apocrypha, plus the seldom-seem "Epistle to the Reader," the editors are extremist Biblical minimalists, who regard most of the OT as fictional post-exilic propaganda. Among the many outrageous claims made in their notes: Abraham was an immoral monster; Isaiah and Jeremiah never existed; the Davidic dynasty never existed; St. Paul was a devious sophist who is responsible for centuries of anti-semitic violence; and on and on. The editors are almost gleeful in their corrosive scepticism. If Bertrand Russell had ever published an edition of the Bible, it could not have been more forthright in its atheism than this one is.
 Word Of Who...? October 4, 2006
19 out of 44 found this review helpful
The Bible of course is twaddle and the source of most of the religious tomfoolery that has plagued mankind for the last two thousand years. It has given flight to the worst sort of delusional thinking (see the Book of Revelation for a text book case of paranoid schizophrenia) and fueled the fires that fried heretics and infidels (aka freethinkers) from medieval times to the present, and destroyed civilizations vastly superior to the Judeo-Christian hegemony that gave us Auschwitz and the atom bomb. (See also the writings of the church fathers, especially Tertullian, who proclaimed "I believe because it is absurd.") But if you can forgive the Bible for being a handbook for genocide, environmental destruction, and the general excesses of human dereliction you will find many glories of the English language, at least in the KJ version. Required reading, I suppose, if only to understand how Western civilization went so terribly astray, but also for the marvelous sonorities. Read it along side Shakespeare and the Book of Common Prayer and you will be transported to realms of power and majesty rarely attained in today's literary milieu deadened by blogs, reality shows and pulp fiction ephemera.
Great Buy! September 2, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love this Bible! So far it's been great for me. However I would love it more with a hard cover.
A Love letter from your Father April 19, 2006
3 out of 25 found this review helpful
It saddens me to see people getting on here, purportedly to review a book, but really to make nonfunny "jokes" about the Word of YHWH. That is so disrespectful to the purpose of this part of the Amazon website, not to mention to believers in Yahushua.
"A fool hath said in his heart, There is no Elohim/God."
But some fools eventually find out it's better to be loved by, and to love, an Almighty Creator than to laugh at Him. It ain't smart to laugh at Him, nope, ain't smart at all.
This book is great - but would be even better, for some, if combined with What If Jesus Had Never Been Born by Dr. D. James Kennedy and some books on "irreducible complexity" - for example by microbiologist Micahel Behe in Darwin's Black Box.
But by itself this Book keeps on keepin' on, though it has been assailed by innumerable people down through the ages in every imaginable way. The vast majority of "them" are now gone and totally forgotten on earth. The Scriptures of YHWH - hated and beloved as always - are still here! And they teach so much, so very much - like Who gets the last and best laughs. ;-)
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