July 12, 2012, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsIn the Galleries: John Speed’s Postdeluvian Genealogy from the First Edition of the King James Bible Historian John Speed (1542–1629) worked with Hebrew scholar Hugh Broughton to create a 36-page genealogy to accompany the first printing of the King James Bible. The genealogy traced “euery family and tribe with the line of Our Sauior Jesus Christ obserued from Adam to the Blessed Virgin Mary.” Speed’s genealogy… read more
July 11, 2012, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsHelen Moore shares insight about Oxford and the making of the King James Bible In April, Helen Moore, Fellow and Tutor in English at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, spoke about the history of the King James translation at the Harry Ransom Center. The talk is now online on YouTube. Moore was lead curator of Manifold Greatness: Oxford and the Making of the… read more
June 27, 2012, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, FilmIn the Galleries: Robert De Niro’s King James Version-inspired tattoos in "Cape Fear" The 1991 Martin Scorsese–directed thriller Cape Fear may seem an unlikely candidate for documenting the use and influence of the King James Bible, but its central character, Max Cady, as played by Robert De Niro, wielded biblical verses like weapons. This aspect of Cady was absent in both the original… read more
