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The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I.
- How The King James Bible Came to Be
- Bringing The Bible Directly to The People
- Why Was The King James Bible So Important?
- The Cultural Legacy of The King James Bible
When King James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in 1603, he was well aware that he was entering a sticky situation. For one thing, his immediate predecessor on the throne, Queen Elizabeth I, had ordered the execution of his mother, Mary, Queen of Scots, who had represented a Catholic threat to Elizabeth’s Protestant reign. And even th...
Published in 1611, the King James Bible spread quickly throughout Europe. Because of the wealth of resources devoted to the project, it was the most faithful and scholarly translation to date—not to mention the most accessible. “Printing had already been invented, and made copies relatively cheap compared to hand-done copies,” says Carol Meyers, a ...
By giving more people direct access to the Bible, the King James Version also had a democratizing influence on Protestantism itself, especially in the English colonies being settled in the New World. The Puritans and other reformers “didn’t overtake the Anglican Church in England,” Meyers explains. “But in the colonies, the Anglicans no longer had ...
From Handel’s Messiah to Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise,” the King James Bible has inspired a wide swath of cultural expression across the English-speaking world over generations. Writers from Herman Melville to Ernest Hemingway to Alice Walker have drawn on its cadences and imagery for their work, while Martin Luther King Jr.quoted the King James Ve...
- Sarah Pruitt
Jun 19, 2017 · The King James Bible, one of the most printed books ever, transformed the English language, coining everyday phrases like “the root of all evil.” But what motivated James to authorize the...
Oct 28, 2024 · King James Version (KJV), English translation of the Bible, published in 1611 under the auspices of King James I of England. The translation had a marked influence on English literary style and was generally accepted as the standard English Bible from the mid-17th to the early 20th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sep 12, 2017 · Why? It was because “the aim of the Romish prelacy was no less, than the entire monopoly of all ecclesiastical and secular rule” (The English Bible – History of the Translation of the Holy Scriptures Into the English Tongue by H. C. Conant; 1856; p.15). The Roman Church intended to rule the secular and sacred world.
Aug 5, 2024 · The New King James Version (NKJV) endeavors to bridge the preferences of modern readers who appreciate the King James Bible’s traditional, majestic style but desire a more readable, contemporary language.
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In fact, no other version comes near the literary beauty and elegance of the KJV. Yet, despite such modern sentiments, the truth is that the KJV was written in the everyday language of 1611 and was engineered to be understood by the common people.
