King+James+Translation

The **King James Version** (**KJV**), commonly known as the **Authorized Version** (**AV**) or **King James Bible** (**KJB**), is an [|English translation] of the Christian [|Bible] for the [|Church of England] begun in 1604 and completed in 1611.[|[][|2] First printed by the [|King's Printer] [|Robert Barker],[|[][|3]This was the third translation into English to be approved by the English Church authorities. The first was the //[|Great Bible]// commissioned in the reign of King [|Henry VIII], and the second was the //[|Bishops' Bible]// of 1568.[|[][|5] In January 1604, [|King James I of England] convened the [|Hampton Court Conference] where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the [|Puritans],[|6]a faction within the Church of England.[|[][|7]

James gave the translators instructions intended to guarantee that the new version would conform to the [|ecclesiology] and reflect the [|episcopal] structure of the Church of England and its belief in an [|ordained] clergy.[|[][|8]The translation was done by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the Church of England.[|[][|9] In common with most other translations of the period, the [|New Testament] was translated from [|Greek], the [|Old Testament] was translated from [|Hebrew] text, while the [|Apocrypha] were translated from the Greek and Latin. In the [|Book of Common Prayer] (1662), the text of the //Authorized Version// replaced the text of the //Great Bible// – for Epistle and Gospel readings – and as such was authorized by Act of Parliament.[|[][|10] By the first half of the 18th century, the //Authorized Version// was effectively unchallenged as the English translation used in [|Anglican] and Protestant churches. Over the course of the 18th century, the //Authorized Version// supplanted the [|Latin Vulgate] as the standard version of scripture for English speaking scholars. Today, the most used edition of the King James Bible, and often identified as plainly the King James Version or King James Version, especially in the United States, remains the [|standard text of 1769], edited by [|Benjamin Blayney] and [|Francis Sawyer Parris] at [|Oxford].

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 * 49) **[|^]** [|Norton 2005], p. 11
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 * 89) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 619
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 * 100) **[|^]** [|Norton 2005], p. 122
 * 101) **[|^]** [|Norton 2005], p. 131
 * 102) **[|^]** [|Norton 2006]
 * 103) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 685
 * 104) **[|^]** [|Chadwick 1970], pp. 40–56
 * 105) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 764
 * 106) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 765
 * 107) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 792
 * 108) **[|^]** [|Bruce 2002], p. 105
 * 109) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 56
 * 110) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 43
 * 111) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 118
 * 112) **[|^]** e.g. Gen. 4:1
 * 113) **[|^]** e.g. Gen. 2:4
 * 114) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 42
 * 115) **[|^]** [|Bobrick 2001], p. 271
 * 116) **[|^]** The Jewish Publication Society Tanakh, copyright 1985
 * 117) **[|^]** [|Daiches 1968], pp. 208
 * 118) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 60
 * 119) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], pp. 243–263
 * 120) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 262
 * 121) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 448
 * 122) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 47
 * 123) **[|^]** [|Scrivener 1884], p. 59
 * 124) ^ [|//**a**//] [|//**b**//] [|Daniell 2003], p. 440
 * 125) **[|^]** [|Allen 1969], p. xxv
 * 126) **[|^]** [|Bobrick 2001], p. 246
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 * 128) **[|^]** [|Allen 1969], p. 118
 * 129) **[|^]** [|Metzger 1964], pp. 103–6
 * 130) **[|^]** [|Metzger 1964], pp. 216
 * 131) **[|^]** [|Metzger 1964], pp. 218
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 * 133) **[|^]** [|Bobrick 2001], p. 264
 * 134) **[|^]** [|Barber 1997], pp. 153–154
 * 135) ^ [|//**a**//] [|//**b**//] [|Barber 1997], p. 150
 * 136) **[|^]** e.g. Matt 7:27: "great was the fall //of it//.", Matt 2:16: "in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts //thereof//", Lev. 25:5: "That which groweth of //it// owne accord of thy harvest". (Lev 25:5 is changed to //its// in many modern printings). [|Barber 1997], pp. 150–151
 * 137) **[|^]** [|Barber 1997], pp. 166–167
 * 138) **[|^]** [|Barber 1997], p. 212
 * 139) **[|^]** e.g. at Gen. 3:12: "The woman //whom// thou gavest to be with mee"
 * 140) **[|^]** [|Bobrick 2001], p. 229
 * 141) **[|^]** [|Bobrick 2001], p. 252
 * 142) **[|^]** [|Daniell 2003], p. 5
 * 143) **[|^]** [|Bruce 2002], p. 145
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