Religion Unplugged2 Joulu 2019

Jeffrey Alan Miller: A New Discovery of the King James Bible

Paul Glader interviewed Jeffrey Alan Miller, an English Professor at Montclair State University in New Jersey, who made a major discovery in 2015. Looking at a notebook in an archive at the University of Cambridge, Miller came across the earliest known draft of any part of the King James Bible, unmistakably in the hand of one of the King James translators.” For this discovery along with his other scholarship on John Milton, Miller was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship this year, which is commonly referred to as a “genius grant” in America.

The MacArthur Foundation noted that Miller’s scholarship into English literature and theology sheds light on new ideas "about the role of faith in daily life and government among Reformation and Renaissance scholars.” Miller

We wanted to learn more about Miller and his pathway from his studies at Princeton University as an undergraduate to his Rhodes Scholarship and doctorate at Oxford University to his finding about the King James Bible.

This episode of the Religion Unplugged podcast was hosted by Paul Glader, edited and produced by Peter Freeby. Special thanks to Melissa Harrison and Meagan Clark.

The Religion Unplugged Podcast is a production of religionunplugged.com. and is a part of The Media Project, a nonprofit dedicated to equipping journalists to cover religion.

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