Bible Readings
JN the BBC Chapter and Verse series, programmes of quarter-hour readings from the Bible have been heard on recent Sunday afternoons from 4YA._ I, too, like the listener who wrote to the editor about it, was puzzled by the accent of Stanley Maxted. Having met only one Canadian, I couldn’t quite place the voice over the air, but found it ¢lear and resonant and very easy to listen to-although I thought the reader did not get enough of the necessary prophetic fire into the Book of Revelation. There is, however, one thing which is brought home to the listener with redoubled (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) force in hearing these programmes, and that is the striking beauty and power of the Authorised Version. It is easy enough to understand why attempts to put the Bible into modern English have not het with any overwhelming success. Although the King James translation sounded modern enough, I suppose, in its day, none of its successors has approached it in rendering so magnificently into English the spirit and ardent intensity of much of the great collection of writings which makes up the Old and New Testaments.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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197Bible Readings New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 10
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