I enjoyed this podcast. Thank you. I look forward to listening to the next one about the creation of the KJB. Back in my days as a full-time English professor, I taught both literature (including the Bible) and language (including the history of English). As you may know, the KJB is written in Early Modern English, as are Shakespeare’s plays, but some of the language in it is actually archaic even by the standards of spoken English in the early 1600s. In their efforts to be literary, writers sometimes employ older language. Indeed, even two centuries later, in the era of Modern English, Keats was still using “thou” and archaic suffixes such as “-est” in poems such as “Ode to a Nightingale.” I’m impressed, by the way, that you read the entire Bible every year!
I enjoyed this podcast. Thank you. I look forward to listening to the next one about the creation of the KJB. Back in my days as a full-time English professor, I taught both literature (including the Bible) and language (including the history of English). As you may know, the KJB is written in Early Modern English, as are Shakespeare’s plays, but some of the language in it is actually archaic even by the standards of spoken English in the early 1600s. In their efforts to be literary, writers sometimes employ older language. Indeed, even two centuries later, in the era of Modern English, Keats was still using “thou” and archaic suffixes such as “-est” in poems such as “Ode to a Nightingale.” I’m impressed, by the way, that you read the entire Bible every year!