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Saturday, January 15, 2011

King James Bible 400 Year Anniversary

This year is the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible. How it came to be is an interesting story told briefly in this interview.  I grew up on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, because it was the version my church used when I was a child. In recent years I've used the New King James which has taken all the "thou's" "thee's", "ye's" and the "eth's" added to words that are for the third person singular present form or the verb. It's a lot of archaic English, and was written at time when the language was going through accelerated changes. This makes me stumble in my reading, and I've found the NKJ much more readable, while it still maintains all the ideas and beauty of the language.


Justin Taylor Interview: Leland Ryken, "The History of the King James Bible" from Crossway on Vimeo.


The  Legacy of the King James Bible: Celebrating 400 Years of the Most Influential English Translation
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Posted by Steven Dexter at 7:23 AM
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David said...

Thanks! A big surprise tied into the 400th anniversary of the 1611 King James Version Bible:

Two scholars have compiled the first worldwide census of extant copies of the original first printing of the 1611 King James Version (sometimes referred to as the "He" Bible). For decades, authorities from the British Museum, et al., have estimated that “around 50 copies” of that first printing still exist. The real number, however, is quite different!

For more information, you're invited to contact Donald L. Brake, Sr., PhD, at dbrake1611@q.com or his associate David Sanford at drsanford@earthlink.net.

You’re also invited to visit the www.credocommunications.net/kjv website for more information.

January 16, 2011 at 8:40 PM

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