At the Civic Repertory he was taught dancing, speech, and make-up, and was given his first professional role, a walk-on in Liliom. Ī month after Scourby returned to Brooklyn, he was accepted as an apprentice at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre on 14th Street in downtown Manhattan. In February 1932, as he was beginning his second semester, his father died, and he left the university to help run the family's pie bakery in Brooklyn. During his first semester he joined the campus drama group and played a minor role in A.A. Upon graduation from high school in 1931, Scourby, not yet having abandoned the prospect of a writing career, entered West Virginia University at Morgantown to study journalism. He made his stage debut with the high school's dramatic society, as the juvenile in Augustin MacHugh's The Meanest Man in the World. Encouraged by some of his teachers, he began to turn his attention to acting.
ĭismissed from Polytechnic Prep School, he finished his secondary education at Brooklyn Manual Training High School which he described as "an ordinary high school that had an awful lot of shop." He was a co-editor of the school magazine and yearbook, and he envisioned a career in writing, though he later came to realize that writing was, for him, "absolutely the most painful thing in the world" and also that he "could never meet a deadline", whereas he found the reading aloud of plays easy and enjoyable. He attended public and private schools in Brooklyn, spending summer vacations in New Jersey, Upstate New York, and at a cousin's home in Massachusetts. Reared in Brooklyn, Scourby was a member of a Boy Scout troop and later became a cadet with the 101st National Guard Cavalry Regiment. The combination of Alexander Scourby reading the King James Bible is an incomparable hearing experience.Alexander Scourby was born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 13, 1913, to Constantine Nicholas Scourby, a successful restaurateur, wholesale baker and sometime investor in independent motion-pictures, and Betsy Patsakos, a homemaker, both of whom were immigrants from Greece.
Although many have recorded the Bible over the years, no one could ever match Scourby`s unparalleled and majestic reading. Since then millions have been sold the World over.
The King James translators used the Tyndale and Wycliffe translations in the Publishing of the King James Bible in 1611, commonly referred to as "The Holy Bible".Īlexander Scourby was the first to record the King James Bible on audio in the early 1950s. William Tyndale translated the Bible into English in 15 century England.
John Wycliffe first translated the entire Bible (both Old and New Testaments) into English in 13th century England. The Hebrew Bible was then translated into Greek and finally into English. The authorship of the remaining 10 Books of the New Testament belong to the disciples of Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul pinned authorship to 13 of the 27 Books of the New Testament. The four New Testament Gospels were pinned by Matthew, Mark, Luke, John. The Old Testament Books of the minor prophets bear the author`s name as well. The Books of Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel bear the names of the Prophets who wrote them.
David wrote much of Psalms while Solomon wrote the books of The Song of Solomon and Ecclesiastes. Moses compiled the earlier parts of Genesis and directly authored the remaining portion. Many of the books of the Old Testament bear the names of the prophets who authored them. The Old Testament was written in Biblical Hebrew, excluding the books written during "the Chaldean captivity" such as Daniel and Ezra which were written in "Biblical Aramaic" during the "Chaldean captivity". The books of the Bible were written at different times by different authors over a period of approximately 1,500 years from around 1400 BC through 90 AD. "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand." (Rev: 1-3) Book of II Samuel, King James Bible by Scourby Bible Media narrated by Alexander Scourby.