Queen Jane's Version: The Holy Bible for Adults Only

by Douglas A. Rankin

"Queen Jane's Version, The Holy Bible for Adults Only" (QJV) is an outrageous parody, chapter and verse, of the King James Version (KJV). Throughout the text, graphic icons flag the most scandalous scriptures, while contemporary language (including epithets and sexually-explicit slang where appropriate) exposes and holds up for ridicule all the flaws, errors, contradictions, debaucheries, atrocities, obscenities, and absurdities that fill the "original" KJV.

Though the QJV is often radical, cynical, sarcastic, blasphemous, and bawdy, the purpose of such an approach is to inspire people to live life for life rather than for death, for reality rather than for mind-crippling myth. Subtlety often makes its humor cunningly deceptive, and its variety of writing styles mirrors the many differences of tone and temperament in the "original". As a whole, it is an iconoclastic, biting, often shocking satire that mocks religious hypocrisy and the gullibility of hard-core believers.

1152 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Al Rankin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am the author of this book which is now out of print, but I have a small number of extra copies of the First Edition I would be happy to sell and sign.

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Bible in its entirety humourously re-translated and with all of the naughty bits highlighted.

[Gordon Rankin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am the son of the author. My father spent 9 years translating the KJV into this wonderful book.

My father passed away in late 2012. I miss him dearly.