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Oh that my words were now written! Oh that they were printed in a book!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
Job 19:23–24, King James Version. Job’s cry opens a powerful testament of belief. One problem: printing didn’t exist in Job’s time. What was up with the King James translators? Theirs was a confusion that stretches back to the Vulgate and Saint Jerome, and has to do with wax tablets and the forgotten history of writing.
