PUBLISHED IN New York in 2012 by a gay-friendly imprint, The Queen James Bible removed all perceived anti-homosexual passages from the King James version on the grounds that James I was himself, in the words of the editors, “a well-known bisexual”. Other versions of the Bible have been no less adventurous. The Complete Jewish Bible, from 1998, incorporated Yiddish slang even though Yiddish was unknown to the first-century Jewish Christians who followed Jesus.
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