The world's most widely known Bible translation, using early seventeenth-century English. Its powerful, majestic style has made it a literary classic, with many of its phrases and expressions embedded ...

A revising committee presented a final version to two bishops, then to the Archbishop of Canterbury, and then, notionally at least, to the King. The King James Bible was a book created by the ...

Notably, James also commissioned a new version of the Bible. The King James Bible has since been widely praised for the quality and beauty of its translation and interpretation. The true legacies ...

One of James's great contributions to England was the Authorised King James's Version of the bible (1611) which was to become the standard text for more than 250 years. But he disappointed the ...