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Subject(s)

• Bible English Authorized—History [Browse]
• Bible English Authorized—Criticism, Textual [Browse]
• Bible—Translating [Browse]

Summary note

Illustrated with reproductions from early editions of the King James Bible, Bible: The Story of the King James Version offers an authoritative history of this renowned translation, ranging from the Bible's inception to the present day.--From publisher description

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 314-332) and index.

Contents

• The Bible in English
• The commissioning of the King James Version
• Translators and translating
• The translation
• The first edition
• The seventeenth century
• The eighteenth century
• The nineteenth century
• The Cambridge paragraph Bibles
• The Bible in America
• The Revised Version
• The early twentieth century
• The King James Version in the modern world
• Appendix 1 : the companies and later revisers
• Appendix 2 : the preliminaries to the KJV.

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ISBN

• 9780199557592 (hbk.) :
• 0199557594 (hbk.)

LCCN

2010935040

OCLC

587229728

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