How the king James translation of the Bible influenced the. English culture and the English speaking world?
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In addition to its importance as a sacred text, the KJV exerted significant cultural influence as a “treasure house of English prose,” as Lewis noted, providing quotes and allusions infused throughout subsequent English literature. Even those who deny the religious aspect of the Bible, praise its literary value.
In fact, the Bible provided the English men of letters, scriptural themes and also modulated their literary style. It has provided vocabulary, most beautiful quotations, maxims and phrases too. The whole of the English poetry is much indebted to the Bible for its dignity and richness.
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In 1604, England's King James I authorized a new translation of the Bible aimed at settling some thorny religious differences in his kingdom—and solidifying his own power. But in seeking to prove his own supremacy, King James ended up democratizing the Bible instead. ... King James I of England, 1621.