The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt on the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins. ... The King James Bible was often read aloud.

The English Bible, King James Version Vol. 1, The Old Testament Edited by Herbert Marks (Norton Critical Editions, 2,280 pp., $22.50) Vol. 2, The New Testament and The Apocrypha ...

The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt on the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins. ... The King James Bible was often read aloud.

The Archbishop of Canterbury says the 400-year-old King James Bible can help give meaning to modern lives, in his New Year address for the BBC.

Shortly after he ascended the English throne in 1603, King James I commissioned a new Holy Bible translation that, more than 400 years later, is still widely read around the world.

So, truly, the King James Bible popularized the expressions that were already in biblical use. The King James version was appointed to be read in all churches, so "people started not just to quote ...

The King James Bible was widely read in the American colonies, though typically published in Britain. It was often the book in the pulpit during the First Great Awakening of the mid-1700s that ...

Now most people read the Bible in their own language. A new book, ... (They were also the work of William Tyndale, on whose translation the later King James scholars drew.

In addition to the Bible-reading law, the Idaho Legislature in 1925 also created a now-defunct “Board of Eugenics,” which had the authority to decide if people determined to be “feeble ...