King-James-Version

Daily Gleanings from Roger Pearse about the translation of the King James Version and AWOL about Brill’s “Digital Biblical Studies” series.

On MSN:

The earliest known draft of the King James Bible, regarded as the most widely read work in English, has been unearthed among ancient papers lodged in a Cambridge college.

American scholar Jeffrey Miller announced his year-old discovery in the Times Literary Supplement this week, saying it would help fill in gaps in understanding how the bible, published in 1611, came to be.

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On the web:

• The SBL website now has a page with links to a number of program unit and seminar papers (HT: Charles Jones).
• Ohio State University has a special online exhibition about the King James Version (HT: Bill Warren).
• Zotero has seen a significant and a couple more minor updates over the past few days. The SBL citation style is also newly updated as of January 29.
• The W3 Consortium has a list of fraktur characters (e.g., for cases where they are used as text-critical siglia) and their corresponding Unicode character assignments. Among other fonts, Gentium Plus natively includes 1D510 (Majority Text) and 1D513 (Papyrus).