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by DUKDWNBCC on November 17th, 2004

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Who was King James, and is there any evidence that he edited the Bible to meet his own beliefs?

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  • by trashcity on November 18th, 2004

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    Up until the early 17th century, there was no "official" version of the Bible in English. Various translations, such as the Geneva and Great Bibles were available, but they tended to reflect the prejudices of their authors in the way they translated from the original.

    King James had been King James VI of Scotland since 1567, and when the thrones merged in 1603, on the childless death of Elizabeth I, became King James I of England, and he ruled England, Scotland and Ireland until his death in 1625. He was a literary man, writing a number of works, perhaps most notably 'A Counterblast to Tobacco', one of the first anti-smoking works.

    In 1604, he called a conference at Hampton Court Palace, and proposed a new translation of the Bible, to replace the existing versions in popular use. There's no evidence he edited the Bible himself, but he did provide the translators with guidelines for their work. They may be seen here:
    http://www.av1611.org/kjv/kjvhist.html

    The translation was carried out by 54 scholars in six committees, who worked on separate sections. The scholars were not paid for their efforts, which took seven years to complete, with the first edition being published in 1611. Because of its special status, while it is now public domain and may be freely reproduced elsewhere in the world, it remains under copyright in the United Kingdom.

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    • interesting....... do you own 1 ?

      DUKDWNBCC

      by DUKDWNBCC on November 22nd, 2004

    • This version is the King James Version, aka the Authorized Version

      Encyclopedia_John

      by Encyclopedia_John on January 20th, 2005

    • Good answer.

      jwmbiz

      by jwmbiz on January 22nd, 2005

    • Note that the original 1611 is rare. The KJV common today is about the 6th revision of the 1611 from about 1769

      Thom64

      by Thom64 on January 25th, 2005

    • Solid post, good link too

      Joshua Zambrano

      by Joshua Zambrano on February 1st, 2006

    • Buuuuut, the authorized version before the King James was the Bishop's Bible.
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      And I wouldn't use http://www.av1611.org/ as it's a biased site.

      The Wade

      by The Wade on December 26th, 2008

    • "he did provide the translators with guidelines for their work."
      Yes. That's well known, and equivalent to his actually having supervised the work.

      Sandman

      by Sandman on September 17th, 2009

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