The King James Bible was translated by a group of about 47 scholars, divided into six committees at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Each committee was responsible for translating a specific ...

But Ryken, a professor of English at Wheaton College in Illinois, isn't a King James-only believer, and his service on the translation oversight committee of the English Standard Version (ESV) puts ...

What better day than Easter Sunday to remember that the King James Bible is 400 years old this year? Commissioned by King James I of England, the Bible was intended to be the official and definitive ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

Queen Elizabeth II attended a ceremony at London's Westminster Abbey Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the King James Bible, often considered the most influential book ever printed in the English ...

HOLYHEAD, Wales — When people talk about the influence of the King James Bible on the English language, they are usually thinking of the many idioms that have come into the language with a biblical ...

Shakespeare was still alive when this Bible was published. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Shortly after he ascended the English ...

ICE cold and cloudless, tower-blocks and tenements etched against the Glasgow sky, it is a heavenly day to be hurrying through the city to keep an appointment with a book. The Book, in fact - a first ...

IT'S the most widely-read text in the English language, influencing everything from art and culture to the way we speak. And this year the King James Bible celebrates its 400th anniversary. For ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Pastoral LifeThe circuit-riding Baptist minister Rome Wager breaks a horse on ranch land he leases at the southern end ...