ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, MARCH 24, 1603, KING JAMES I ASCENDS TO THRONE: AMERICAN COLONIZER, BIBLE NAMESAKE. Robert Aitken, a Philadelphia bookseller born in Scotland, published a version of the ...

The King James Version of the Bible was published 400 years ago. It's no longer the top-selling Bible, but in those four centuries, it has woven itself deeply into our speech and culture.

But King James wasn’t too happy with the Puritan overtones in the Geneva Bible, which challenged a king's divine right to rule. To solve this problem, King James commissioned a brand-new version ...

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.