King James Version

The King James Version of The Bible is the version I own, it is, and obviously, an English translation of the Christian Bible originally translated by forty seven scholars employed by the Church of England, this version was started in 1604 and finished in 1611, during the reign of King James I.

The Old Testament was translated from Hebrew, and the New Testament from Greek. The King James Bible is the book used by Anglicans and Protestants. At first there was a little opposition to this version of The Bible, the leading Hebrew scholar at the time Hugh Broughton, condemned this translation, having issue with the King James Version not being a word for word accurate translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. Others took issue with the book being written in English and not Latin, they considering English to be an ugly, vulgar tongue.

Over the years people have pointed out many inaccuracies in this version of The Bible, some of which have been printing errors, originally some early versions of the King James Version contained over fifteen hundred printing errors, though I imagine such errors were easily made, the printing process being in its early stages.

In 1769 Benjamin Blayney, a specialist in the Hebrew language and practices of, took on the mammoth task of editing the King James Version, his revised edition became known as the Oxford standard text. This new edition of the King James Version of The Bible contains over twenty thousand differences from the original 1611 edition. Over the next one hundred years scholars, especially those who specialised in ancient languages, in particular Hebrew and Greek, found many errors of translation in this version of The Bible, and eventually more accurate versions of the King James Version appeared. A Revised Version in 1881, that never found popularity, and revised editions in the 20th Century updated the King James Version. The 20th Century editions are the versions most in use currently, having replaced the Oxford standard text, these new versions correct errors in the Oxford standard text, though there are groups who refuse to accept these new versions as their King James Version, and claim that the Oxford standard text is the true word of God, which if course it is not, being a revised edition of the 1611 King James Version, which itself is a translation of older Bibles.

The King James Version has been termed “the most influential version of the most influential book in the world, in what is now its most influential language’.

For more on the King James Version I recommend these sites:

http://www.av1611.org/kjv/kjvhist.html

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/

http://www.av1611.org/kjv/knowkjv.html