Harvard picked the KJV for its literary guide. |
“We have as a rule used
the King James Version in translations, and our reasons for doing so must be
obvious: it is the version most English readers associated with the literary
qualities of the Bible, and it is till arguably the version that best preserves
the literary effects of the original languages.”
The Literary Guide to
the Bible, edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermod, Harvard
University Press, 1987, p. 7.