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Do you know about A Sea of Words by Dean King? It’s a lexicon/companion to the series and helps with the nautical terms. There’s a German edition: https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Dean-King-ebook/dp/B007DFUQ72
Read God's Secretaries if you get a chance. It's about the 1611 creation of the King James Bible. There were several Bibles in existence at the time, and King James thought to quell all the squabbling between the various factions by having only one - his.
I grew up with that crap as well. Read God's Secretaries if you ever have time. Its how the King James Bible came into being. There were half a dozen different Bibles floating around during the 17th century that King James decided that there was only going to be one - his.
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James became king of England in 1603 and was caught in a feud between establishment Anglicans, the official state religion, and the firebrand Puritans, who were technically Anglican but thought Anglicanism was far too devoted to pomp and ritual and other things that seemed too Catholic.
James ultimately thought that a new Bible translation might be a project that could reconcile these sides. The Anglican leadership had a translation called the "Bishops' Bible;" the Puritans used a translation of their own often called the "Geneva Bible." The KJV was an attempt at reconciliation.
I cannot comment on that saying specifically but my sister is religious and a bit of a local scripture scholar.
She says the King James edition of 1611 was one of the worst redaction's ever.
A good book on this is "God's Secretaries" by Adam Nicolson. It tells the history of how and why King James I of England wanted this published.
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God's Secretaries was released around the last major anniversary of the KJV, so it is pretty current scholarship. That is good for a history lesson.
Please remember that the Catholic Bible contains books not in the KJV, and the KJV contains ones that aren't in the Catholic canon. And there are known books that appear in no canon (sometimes because they were found long after canon was established).
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Honestly, I'd look at Peter Kreeft's The Philosophy of Tolkien because if you're familiar with LOTR at all, it provides a very good intro into the various topics of philosophy. It also gives you a good starting point of what you could possibly dip your toe in from there.
If you want to get into the Summa go ahead, but the Catholic philosophical tradition is very rich, so do not be afraid to read other writers, such as St. JPII or Edith Stein.