The Complete King James Version Audio Bible
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About this listen
Since its first publication in 1611, the King James Version of the Bible, with its flowing language and prose rhythm, has had a profound influence on the literature of the past 400 years and is the greatest English translation ever produced.
English speakers around the world are acclaiming this recent recording by British narrator Christopher Glyn, whose talented voice and knowledge of the text makes for a rich listening experience, capturing the beauty and power of God's word and making the King James English clear and easy for a modern audience to understand.
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Christopher Glyn reads The Bible very well - calm and dignified, not over dramatic. No special effects or other actor’s voices to intrude. Strangely though when you get to The New Testament, there is suddenly cloying background music - piano and strings at the start and end of each book. Some even have the music throughout, which seems bizarre and may be technical error. The music is so loud and intrusive sometimes it’s hard to hear the text. Just when I thought I might have to abandon it though, the music ceases and the rest of the books are, as the Old Testament is, free of music. Perhaps the audio book was cut together from different versions and something went wrong in editing.
Three other things to be aware of when choosing:
1) Although the 80 hours are split into roughly 30 minute chapters, Bible books, verses etc aren’t used in headings, so it can be tricky to find where you are in the text. Keep a note of where you’re up to.
2) The reader has a neutral American accent, but pronounces some names and place names in, shall I say, an idiosyncratic way.
3) For some reason Christopher Glyn occasionally breaks out of his measured reading voice to dramatise certain lines, such as a particular prophecy or declaration. You might, as I did, find this a bit bizarre and jolting, but thankfully It only happens very rarely. I wanted a reading, not a dramatisation.
All told it’s excellent, an absolute bargain for the £50 or so that it typically retails for.
Hope this helps you decide if it’s right for you:
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Would you listen to The Complete King James Version Audio Bible again? Why?
Always as its easy to understand and listen than holding a large book you can read God's words wherever you areWhat was one of the most memorable moments of The Complete King James Version Audio Bible?
New testament as old was harder to understand with all the old wordsWhich character – as performed by Christopher Glyn – was your favourite?
JesusWas there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
All the evil things that some people may not know about what happened to jesus before his deathAny additional comments?
Well written and spoken would recommendunderstandable
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The author has a flawless and considered delivery, and, while I could take issue with his take on a number of place names and personal names, (also I can't find any source that supports his stressing of "compassing" on the second syllable, although I get the philology behind his choice) these quibbles in no way detracted from my enjoyment and good instruction.
Above all, I had the sense of being presented the Word of God by a believing Christian who is familiar with the text not merely as a voice actor.
I commend this reading and hope to return to it multiple times in the future.
The best UK voiced KJV reading I found so far
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Excellent
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The alleged morality found in these 80-some books of the Bible are sufficiently repetitive, vague and/or ambiguous - thus excessively interpretable - that I've easily found modern books that better and more extensively explain the ins and outs of ethics and objective causality (from which morality can conclusively be formed). Not to mention that The Bible could easily be trimmed down to 10% of its size and still contain as much wisdom and truth as it's purported to have. That's an assertion, by the way, not an actual argument. So feel free to disagree.
But it may beg the question - if true, how can better and more easily grasped morality be found beyond "God's word"?
Personally, It seems blatantly obvious to me that "God" (insofar as the term might refer to some actual, demonstrable ultimate being, regardless of what we humans read, write or narrate about "Him") must, quite literally, be "the Cosmos itself, acting upon itself". And what is "The Cosmos"? It is the product sum of our human, interpersonal ability to agree on what truth is. It is the "order in the chaos" and that which "always was, always is and always will be". As such, it is our task, whether as society, or congregation, or individual, to find the best possible methodology (i.e. science) to objectively identify "what actually is" (physically as well as metaphysically) and "how it actually affects us" (whether momentarily or perpetually), using the right combination of abduction, induction and deduction. Because the more "it" can be experienced "to be" (demonstrably, predictably and consistently at a personal as well as collective level), the more likely and quantitatively "it is", and the more you will "be connected to it", the more you "obey it", understand it and thus benefit from it - it gives you wings. Hopefully, you'll use those wings wisely and pay the message forward, thereby propagating and heralding "his kingdom" and "bearing the light unto mankind" - as opposed to becoming a childish and resentful fire-starter because the Adams of this world didn't grow up with the same divine privileges as your narcissistic ego did. The narcissist here being Satan, of course.
It's not hard for any fool to utter random strings of words and present them as profound truths. I mean, just look at what you've read thus far, in my review. As Odysseus said to his son Telemachus, albeit more specific to anger: "To be angry is easy. But to be angry at the right people, to the right degree, at the right time and for the right reasons - that is hard." In a similar sense, to read the Bible is easy. But to truly understand it in the context of the human civilization that spawned it - that is much, much harder. Even if you agree, you (as I) may still read it the wrong way. But the idea is to bring nuance into the conversation, as opposed to forcing binary extremes in an attempt at scoring edgy, self-congratulatory internet points. (I myself am clearly an S-tier Grandmaster of the latter, proving that I'm therefore right in the most circular way possible).
The Bible is a quirky, yet interesting and somewhat valuable, artifact from an age long since outdated. It's certainly not as "horrific" as some critics seem to think. Then again, when Steven Fry prefaced with the story of "flies burrowing into children's eyes" when he asked God "How dare you?", he wasn't actually "talking to God" as much as he was "talking to the sensibilities of certain people with rather absurd notions of God" (as clarified by Fry himself on multiple occasions). Conversely, when a devout Christian's biblical critique seem recklessly absent, it may not actually be the case. This is what abstract thinking affords us - the ability to experiment with thoughts, ideas and hypotheticals as a way to test the structure and consistency of some perceived potential truth, at the conceptual level. Sometimes, that requires us to go down specific tangents, one at a time. As such, don't be so quick to interpret everything you hear and read in the literal sense - not even The Bible. To do so is lazy, at best. At worst, it may be outright heresy and the worship of a golden calf. "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
The Bible itself, as it stand on its own two feet (when read "as is", in first-person), definitely lacks a lot of critical facets of what we today expect of our human morality, ethics and understanding of reality. It has, for instance, a lousy track record of explaining WHY you should or should not do things. Its go-to answer is always "because God told you" or by appealing with parables to some other story's moral high ground (which begs the question of where that story got its morality from). You should ask yourself this: Would a real God really "just tell you", if he was an actual God who is trying to teach you something profound that may last a life-time (or beyond)? That's actually a question worth asking, especially if God also expects you to reasonably grasp the differences between him and a Golden Calf.
Either way, there's definitely wisdom within The Bible. Just be careful not to lose track of the example fact that, if "millions of people can't be wrong", most of Europe today might be speaking German and believe in Phrenology. Instead, appreciate The Bible as one of many collections of books in an ocean of thousands of works ranging from the paltry to the supreme. Don't just rehash your reading, but keep your wits refreshed with everything the world has to offer. The Bible deserves that respect from you, as an equally valid source of literature.
"There's a book..." - Actually, there's 80.
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What disappointed you about The Complete King James Version Audio Bible?
I am disapointed because I wanted this to download to my device (PC)I need not to subscribe for free trial - we all know that there is nothing for free.Who was your favorite character and why?
excellent performance...Which character – as performed by Christopher Glyn – was your favourite?
excellent performance...You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?
my point is not against the bookAny additional comments?
where can I get this in download able form???thank you.
shoping with amazon very disapointing...
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