THE KING JAMES BIBLE

King James Version - Wikipedia

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The King James Version (KJV), also known as the King James Bible (KJB) or simply the AuthorizedVersion (AV), is an English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.

Complete Bible published‎: ‎1611

Copyright‎: ‎Public domain due to age, publicati...

Reading level‎: ‎US and Canada Grade 8–10

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The Story Behind The King James Bible - Christianity

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Learn more about the commissioning of the King James Bible took place in 1604 at the Hampton Court Conference outside of London. The version remains one of the greatest landmarks in the English tongue, but who was King James?

King James Bible: How and Why the Translation Came to Be | Time

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Jun 19, 2017 - A new exhibition highlights the translation process behind one of the most printed books in history.

Genesis 1 KJV - In the beginning God created the heaven - Bible ...

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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the.

Everyman's Library

THE KING JAMES BIBLE was published on this day in 1611.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."
--from "Gospel of John"

John Drury’s clear, marvelously erudite, and richly detailed introduction to the Everyman’s Library edition of The New Testament reminds us why the King James Version, first published in 1611, has been the favorite of English readers for centuries. Despite a plethora of new translations in the second half of the twentieth century, the King James Version retains its power and appeal because “it has the intrinsic value of a classic and is an enduring masterpiece.” Drury outlines the fascinating history of this magisterial translation, marveling at the “patient generosity” with which the translators sifted through and distilled a century of previous scholarship. He points out that their work has endured not only because of the astonishing care they took to reflect faithfully the syntax of the original Hebrew and Greek–which enabled them to dispense with the densely entangled prose style that characterized English writing at the time–but also because of their concern to writers from Milton to Coleridge to George Eliot. From the doctrinal richness of the letters of St. Paul to those four masterpieces of storytelling, the Gospels, The New Testament has served as a source of inspiration for centuries. To quote George Steiner on the centrality of the Bible: “What you have in hand is not a book. It is the book. That, of course, is what ‘Bible’ means. It is the book which, not only in Western humanity, defines the concept of a text. All our other books, however different in matter or method, relate, be it indirectly, to this book of books…All other books are inhabited by the murmur of that distant source.” READ more here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/the-new-testament-by-…/