English-speaking Christians around the world celebrate the 400th anniversary of the King James Version of the Bible this year. First published in 1611, the King James Version has had a greater ...

The King James Bible was translated by a group of about 47 scholars, divided into six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Each committee was responsible for translating a specific ...

What better day than Easter Sunday to remember that the King James Bible is 400 years old this year? Commissioned by King James I of England, the Bible was intended to be the official and definitive ...

HOLYHEAD, Wales — When people talk about the influence of the King James Bible on the English language, they are usually thinking of the many idioms that have come into the language with a biblical ...

The impact of the King James Bible, which was published 400 years ago, is still being felt in the way we speak and write, says Stephen Tomkins. No other book, or indeed any piece of culture, seems to ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...

For four centuries English-speaking people have learned about Christianity by reading the King James Bible. The English translation introduced phrases still well-used today such as 'no peace for the ...

It had a modest print run, sold loose-leaf for 10 shillings or bound for 12, and was riddled with errors, misplaced words and typos. But when published in London in 1611, a new English Bible, stamped ...