The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Its literary brilliance is well known and its words and phrases have had a unique influence on the English language. Four hundred years ...

"I believe it's important for historical context for kids to understand the role the Bible played." Walters also ...

"We desire that the Scripture may speake like it selfe," the translators wrote in the preface to the 1611 Bible, "that it may bee understood even of the very vulgar." The qualities that allow a ...

The influence (and beauty) of the King James Bible, issued in 1611, can hardly be overestimated. As the late essayist (and famous atheist) Christopher Hitchens once wrote, the King James Bible’s ...

As the Reformation progressed and Protestant groups split, more Bible translations appeared. Luther and his colleagues in Wittenberg produced a complete Bible in German in 1534. By 1611 the national ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses.

The original text of the King James bible dates back to 1611. Prof Campbell said he had wanted his version to be close to the original. The Archbishop of Canterbury commissioned Oxford University ...

We want people to use commentaries, study Bibles, histories, and introductions. One of the important features of this translation, one that goes back to the KJV, is that it has notes at the bottom of ...

THE JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Publication of the King James Bible in 1611 set the standard for English Scripture for some 300 years. This volume from the Museum of the ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A man who killed his wife at a Bible study last year in St. Paul was sentenced to 33 years on Friday ...