Yesterday at Parliament House Canberra Bible Society Australia was delighted to welcome Senator Ursula Stephens to open The Book that Changed the World exhibition. We provide the beginning of her address so you can join the excitement:
"Welcome to this exhibition of The Book that Changed the World, which the Bible Society Australia has put together as part of the celebrations for the four-hundredth anniversary of the King James Bible.
"You’ll find many translations of the Bible here: into Latin and Anglo-Saxon, Welsh and Russian, Chinese and even Indigenous languages. And they all have a story to tell: there are Bibles that came out in the First Fleet and some were found on the goldfields, the Bible the Russian Tsar gave to Governor Macquarie and the various Bibles, large and small, that have travelled with Aussie forces to war. And the commentary on them is so fascinating that I predict you’ll find yourself coming back again, for a further look and a bit more thought.
"As well as other languages, there are different English translations of the Bible here, old and new. And of course there’s a big King James Version, or “Authorised Version”, as it’s known. This version appeared in 1611, and for over 250 years it was, for all practical purposes, the only Bible in the English language…
You can read the full address at Senator Stephen’s website
