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In 1611, after seven years of work, the 47 scholars who produced the King James Version [6] of the Bible drew extensively from Tyndale's original work and other translations that descended from his. [7] One estimate suggests that the New Testament in the King James Version is 83% Tyndale's words and the first half of the Old Testament 76%.
James VI and I was baptised Roman Catholic, but brought up Presbyterian and leaned Anglican during his rule. He was a lifelong Protestant , but had to cope with issues surrounding the many religious views of his era, including Anglicanism , Presbyterianism , Roman Catholicism and differing opinions of several English Separatists .
John Speed's Genealogies recorded in the Sacred Scriptures (1611), bound into first King James Bible in quarto size (1612). The title of the first edition of the translation, in Early Modern English, was "THE HOLY BIBLE, Conteyning the Old Teſtament, AND THE NEW: Newly Tranſlated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Tranſlations diligently compared and reuiſed, by his Maiesties ...
Soon after James's marriage in 1589, [36] verses made reference to rumours about the King's sexual behaviour, calling James "a buggerer, one that left his wife all night intactam [i.e., untouched, a virgin]". [35] [9] [37] [38] When James ascended the English throne in 1603, an epigram circulated in London: "Elizabeth was King: now James is ...
John Rainolds (1549–1607) one of the leading Puritan scholars of the King James era had a share in the Hampton Court Conference, where he was the most prominent representative of the Puritan party and received a good deal of favor from the king. He was also a leading contributor to the King James Version of the Bible,
His comic Sabotage portrayed a Christian whose faith was shipwrecked by the rejection of the King James Version as the Word of God, only to be rescued by another character's defense of the King James Version. [21] During this time, a more radical form of King James Onlyism was also developed by the Independent Baptist minister Peter Ruckman ...
The Geneva Bible is one of the most historically significant translations of the Bible into English, preceding the Douay Rheims Bible by 22 years, and the King James Version by 51 years. [1] It was the primary Bible of 16th-century English Protestantism and was used by William Shakespeare , [ 2 ] Oliver Cromwell , John Knox , John Donne and others.
Charles I was proclaimed "King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland" at the Mercat cross of Edinburgh. In his later years King James was sometimes immobilised by illnesses. In April 1619 he had to travel in a litter, and then was carried in a chair. [3] Although King James became increasingly infirm, he continued to ride and hunt.