KJV New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: Burgundy Hardcover Edition | 
|  | | | Title: | KJV New Cambridge Paragraph Bible with the Apocrypha: Burgundy Hardcover Edition | | Author: | David Norton (Editor) | | Publisher: | Cambridge | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 01 June, 2006 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0521843863 / 9780521843867 | | List Price: | $80.00 | | You Save: | $17.28 | | Amazon Price: | $62.72 | |
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The standard editions of the 1611 King James Bible (or Authorised Version) currently available give, with little variation, the text as established by the Oxford edition of 1769. They give the reader, therefore, a seventeenth-century text in mid-eighteenth century clothes - clothes that are neither original nor modern. In this new edition of the King James Version the text has been collated with the translators' original work in order to give the reader as closely as possible the exact text that the translators decided on. It has also been given consistent modern spelling and presentation in order to make it easier to read and study than standard editions. The text is presented is paragraph form, with marginal notes. The type is 10/12.5 Swift.
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• Wonderful Binding - Not Sure Sure About The Content 20 October, 2006
The Amazon price is an extraordinarly good deal. Had I bought this from Amazon.co.uk, or direct from the Camridge Press I would have paid some 60% more than the $50 I paid here on Amazon.com. It is undoubtedly a beautifully produced book - the binding, paper and printing are all first-rate.
David Norton likens the task he has accomplished to cleaning up an old-master painting, so that the orginal colour can shine through once again. I am not entirely sure that he has achieved this.
He has sought to make the text consistent - whereas the text we knew and loved was idiosyncratic and frequently inconsistent - a work of art and love as well as of scholarship and academic endeavour. To give just one example - although there are many - sometimes the KJV uses the possessive second person singular when followed by a vowel as "thine" ("if thine eye offend the . . . ") and sometimes as "thy" ("who is the sword of thy excellency"). Inconsistent, yes . . . but part of its charm, and a product of a time when the language was changing. But Norton abhors all things inconsistent - so we have 'thy' thoughout. Hence "if thy eye offend thee".
Not any great matter . . . but for those who loved and grew up with the 'old' text, a dear old-master has been rendered somewhat sterile as well as cleaner.
Almost all other revisions of the text have been undertaken by a group of scholars who revered the words not merely as great literature but as the inspired word of God, and something of their awe and wonder has come across in their rendering. Norton (who in a magazine article describes himself as a non-believer) has set about his task in the conviction that the text before him is of huge significant to the development of our western culture, and of great literary and artistic worth; but for some of us (albeit not Dr Norton) it is so much more than that. To quote the words with which the bible is prsented to the newly crowned monarch at the coronation) "This book is the most valuable thing that the world affords . . . these are the lively Oracles of God" - something that I suspect Dr Norton would never say, and it shows.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1KZ73VI0UM32B
• In A Word - Brilliant! 21 May, 2008
I purchased my copy of the New Cambridge Paragraph (NCP) Bible (hardcover) in June 2007. I don't mind admitting that it was love at first sight and that my attachment has only grown stronger in the 12 months since then.
It is possible that William Tyndale would not have been happy with what has become of the English Bible. With the text divided into chapter and verse, two columns to a page, gilt edges and a leather cover, the Bible is made to look different from any other book. Some of these embellishments are to be desired more than others, but in total they reinforce the Bible as being a religious book only for religious people. This is terribly unfortunate because so many people in the English speaking world who could benefit from knowing the Bible are excluded because of archaic publishing practices.
To this end, the NCP Bible is well over-due. It presents the King James Version (the best English translation) in a modern format whilst retaining the advantage of chapter and verse; together with leather cover and gilt edges if desired. At my Bible meeting we say that "context is king". The changes made by Cambridge and David Norton at last place the emphasise back onto context and readability. Something which was of utmost importance to William Tyndale.
For me the difference between a very good Bible and a brilliant one are page layout, paper quality, binding, font design and the size of the text. According to these criteria I would judge this edition of the King James as being brilliant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes is recorded as saying, "When Providence throws a good book in my way, I bow to its decree and purchase it as an act of piety, if it is reasonably or unreasonably cheap" (1872). The NCP Bible represents good value for money, and the word of God is more precious than gold. May the changes made by Cambridge and David Norton help make the Bible not only the world's best seller, but also the most read and most understood book in the world.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AQFOP1E2NDO7I
• Context! 01 June, 2007
a friend suggested that the bible must be read from 'period to period'. to which i agreed. My favorite thing about this Bible is the paragraph style - which is why i bought it in the first place. it makes reading familiar verses in context so easy! context is the key. I especially like the quote markings, and the font.
i do get a kick out of die-hard KJV 1611 advocates (of which i am one). Most of them don't realize the one they use is actually 1769, complete with dozens, if not hundreds, of changes. You want 1611, read this one. The spelling changes do not, in my opinion, constitute 'changes'. You don't like the Apocrypha? don't read it.
This is my favorite Bible, and i wouldn't dream of writing in the wide margins! This is the Bible I READ. If i want to study, I'll use one with all the fancy props. However, to get an overall understanding of a passage, I have seen nothing better than the NCPB.
Context. Context. Read your favorite verses in context.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A16V78W5X7C7X
• Great, But See Cheaper Edition 24 August, 2007
This is a beautiful Bible. But, you should be aware that Penguin Classics has reprinted this text in an inexpensive paperback, called the Bible !The Bible (Penguin Classics)
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• Every Bible Should Be Printed Like This 25 January, 2007
The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible is what I have long waited for. The text of the King James Bible is printed in paragraph form, with one column on each page (like a normal book), instead of the typical two columns per page which most Bibles have. I have never seen a King James version of the Bible printed this way. In the 1960s the New English Bible and the Jerusalem Bible were printed in one column with proper paragraphing. Some versions of the New American Standard bible are still published this way. Otherwise the norm is two columns, which frankly makes the text very hard to read for long periods of time. The NCPB is the only way that I know of that you can get the King James in the single column format. Hurrah! I am very grateful.
It has some other features which might, or might not, be pleasing to serious readers of the King James Bible. In addition to the paragraphing, it has modern punctuation, including quotation marks when people, or God, are speaking. The King James has traditionally not had this, because quotation marks had not been invented when it was originally translated. Also, the italics, which the original translators used when they were kind of guessing how to translate a word or phrase into English, are now gone. I do not miss them, but some people will. Finally, modern spelling has been applied. This is not as dramatic as you might fear. After all, the spelling which you are accustomed to seeing in the King James is not the original spelling from the year 1611. Most KJ Bibles have spellings updated to the year 1769 (yes, 1769), when the KJ became more or less fixed, and which is very different from the 1611 original. Here in The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible "Shalt" is still "Shalt" and thou, thy, and ye are still here too, but "shew" is now "show" and "spake" is now "spoke." The editor says that the intent was to modernize the spelling of words, not to update archaic words (like "thou"). In some cases this was a judgment call by the editor, and I was generally happy with the editor's decisions on this issue.
So, in short, The New Cambridge Paragraph Bible is the most readable King James Bible now available. Certainly the modern spelling and the elimination of italics makes it not the same as the 1611 original. However, I think that the editor has done an admirable job in making this classic translation accessible to the modern reader. Congratulations to him.
A couple of notes on the binding. First, this Bible is huge! More than 10 inches tall, it is the biggest Bible that I have ever owned. Second, the french morocco leather cover is satisfactory but not luxurious. I trust that it will be durable, but seems both a bit thin and rather stiff. The paper is excellent, however, and so is the print size. Reported as being 10 point, the type is easy to read for anyone who does not have a notable impairment of vision.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2EWIYH82GWIO5
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