Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."

[George Thompson]

JB writes:
>
> I believe there is in fact a Bible with a "big inning" (faux pas) --
> one that leaves out a "not" from one of the Ten Commandments.  "Thou
> shalt commit adultery"?  Must be that -- it's too often obeyed.

This bible came to have the nickname "The Wicked Bible".

If one knows that, one will be able to Google-search & find . . .
The Wicked Bible, sometimes called The Adulterous Bible or The Sinners' Bible, is a term referring to the Bible published in 1631 by Robert Barker and Martin Lucas, the royal printers in London, which was meant to be a reprint of the King James Bible. The name is derived from the compositors' mistake: in the Ten Commandments (Exodus  20:14) the word not in the sentence "Thou shalt not commit adultery" was omitted. ***
 . . . in Wikipedia.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.  Working on a new edition, though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel S. Berson" <Berson at ATT.NET>
Date: Friday, February 25, 2011 4:47 pm
Subject: Re: Heard on Springer: "in the _first_ beginning..."
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

> At 2/25/2011 03:58 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> >IAC, the story immediately struck me as probably
> >apocryphal, since I hadn't heard before - or since, for that matter -
> >that typos were a major problem WRT printing the Bible.
>
> I believe there is in fact a Bible with a "big inning" (faux pas) --
> one that leaves out a "not" from one of the Ten Commandments.  "Thou
> shalt commit adultery"?  Must be that -- it's too often obeyed.
>
> >BTW, doesn't "big inning" have some special meaning in a baseballic
> >context? (I prefer "America's game" to the "national pastime.") Or is
> >"inning" a faux ami?
>
> Therefore there could be a second big inning.
>
> Joel
>
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