The King James #Bible reconsidered | David Edgar | Books | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/feb/19/bible-king-james-version-david-edgar
Celebrants of this year’s anniversary have enjoyed pointing out the ironies of the translation: that it was commissioned to mollify the losing faction at a religious conference; that far from “inventing the language”, it was written in archaic prose; and – most surprising of all – that it was made not by an individual genius but by six largely anonymous committees