Jan 3, 2010

Salem on History | The King James Bible Is Published

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Series: Chronology of European History
Categories: Literature, Publishing, Religion, Ethics
Subcategories: Christianity, Christians, Churches, Protestantism, Protestants
Curriculum: British History, Renaissance History, 17th Century European History
Geographical Location: London, United Kingdom
Date: 1611

Article abstract: The King James Bible is published, producing an English translation that is favored by many English-speaking Protestants throughout the world.

Summary of Event

There were English translations or at least paraphrases of parts of the Bible beginning perhaps as early as the seventh century. Yet such efforts were far from producing a translation of the entire Bible into English. It was not until the late fourteenth century, and the stirring in England of a pre-Lutheran Protestantism, that a movement toward a complete translation of the...

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Salem on History | The King James Bible Is Published

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