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The King James Version (KJV), also the King James Bible (KJB) and the Authorized Version (AV), is an Early Modern English translation of the Christian Bible for the Church of England, which was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611, by sponsorship of King James VI and I. [ d ][ e ] The 80 books of the King James Version include 39 books of ...
e. The reign of King James I of England (1603–1625) saw the continued rise of the Puritan movement in England, that began during reign of Queen Elizabeth (1558–1603), and the continued clash with the authorities of the Church of England. This eventually led to the further alienation of Anglicans and Puritans from one another in the 17th ...
William Tyndale (/ ˈtɪndəl /; [ 1 ] sometimes spelled Tynsdale, Tindall, Tindill, Tyndall; c.1494 – October 1536) was an English Biblical scholar and linguist who became a leading figure in the Protestant Reformation in the years leading up to his execution. He translated much of the Bible into English, and was influenced by the works of ...
In European Christianity, the divine right of kings, divine right, or God's mandation, is a political and religious doctrine of political legitimacy of a monarchy. It is also known as the divine-right theory of kingship. The doctrine asserts that a monarch is not accountable to any earthly authority (such as a parliament or the Pope) because ...
The King James Version of the Bible came by its name because it was published in 1611 under the auspices of King James I of England. Richard Bancroft, who was archbishop of Canterbury at the time ...
James II and VII (14 October 1633 O.S. – 16 September 1701) was King of England and Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII from the death of his elder brother, Charles II, on 6 February 1685, until he was deposed in the 1688 Glorious Revolution. The last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland, and Ireland, his reign is now ...
James the Just, or a variation of James, brother of the Lord (Latin: Iacobus from Hebrew: יעקב, Ya'aqov and Greek: Ἰάκωβος, Iákōbos, can also be Anglicized as " Jacob "), was a "brother" of Jesus, according to the New Testament. He was the first leader of the Jerusalem Church of the Apostolic Age.
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.