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.
But now, in an unassuming notebook held in an archive at the University of Cambridge, an American scholar has found what he says is an important new clue to the earthly processes behind that masterpiece: the earliest known draft, and the only one definitively written in the hand of one of the roughly four dozen translators who worked on it.
The Cloyne Report, as it is known, drafted by an independent investigative committee headed by Judge Yvonne Murphy, found that the clergy in the Diocese of Cloyne, a rural area of County Cork, did not act on complaints against 19 priests from 1996 to 2009.
So here I am, a known draft dodger, and I go on TV and question the courage of a genuine American war hero, John McCain, and, instead of drumming me out of the race so I can get back to my empire, my numbers have gone up again?" "Ten points," Jeff said.
The manuscript, said to be the only known draft of the final lyrics, garnered $2m £1.2mm) at Sotheby's.
One hundred kilometers to the east, pages of the earliest known draft of the King James Bible were found among a pile of old papers in the archives of Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge.
Wow, who knew? "Draft Day" hits theaters on April 11.
Next year marks the 40-year anniversary of the all-volunteer U.S. military, but as every young man turning 18 knows, draft registration lives on.
