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 ...

Shakespeare was still alive when this Bible was published. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly after he ascended the English ...

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 ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

This year, the most influential book you may never have read is celebrating a major birthday. The King James Version of the Bible was published 400 years ago. It's no longer the top-selling Bible, but ...

The poetic power of the King James Bible is part of our heritage. Around the world people have been comforted by the words, “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want.” They have been challenged by, ...

The King James Bible was not a book of poetry or philosophy or music or mystery but something of all these, which is one reason its rhythms remain embedded in our language 400 years after its ...