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The exclusive use of the King James Version is recorded in a statement made by the Tennessee Association of Baptists in 1817, stating "We believe that any person, either in a public or private capacity who would adhere to, or propagate any alteration of the New Testament contrary to that already translated by order of King James the 1st, that is now in common in use, ought not to be encouraged ...
The King James Version" is found, unequivocally used as a name, in a letter from 1855. [30] The next year King James Bible, with no possessive, appears as a name in a Scottish source. [31] In the United States, the "1611 translation" (actually editions following the standard text of 1769, see below) is generally known as the King James Version ...
The King James Version (KJV), or Authorized Version is an English translation of the Holy Bible, commissioned for the Church of England at the behest of James I of England. First published in 1611, it has had a profound impact not only on most English translations that have followed it, but also on English literature as a whole.
American Bible Society's first headquarters were on Nassau Street in Lower Manhattan. [4] The Bible House and offices of the Christian Herald, built 1853, seen here 1893, demolished 1956. American Bible Society used the King James Bible, and, starting in 1858, appointed committees to prevent textual corruption. [5]
Depiction of the sin of Adam and Eve (The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Pieter Paul Rubens). Original sin (Latin: peccatum originale) in Christian theology refers to the condition of sinfulness that all humans share, which is inherited from Adam and Eve due to the Fall, involving the loss of original righteousness and the distortion of the Image of God. [1]
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%.
The King James version slowly took over the place of the Geneva Bible had among the Puritans. The KJV of the Bible translation is noted for its "majesty of style", and has been described as one of the most important books in English culture and a driving force in the shaping of the English-speaking world.
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.