Few English works rival the King James Bible, a text that serves as one of the most familiar versions of Christian holy writ. Those at the College of Charleston now have a chance to examine one of the ...

The Geneva Bible was the Bible of both the Pilgrims and the Puritans who came to these shores, beginning with the arrival of ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A state lawmaker wants to require every public school library to purchase a King James Bible, and mandate that educators use it as the primary text when teaching elective courses on ...

A Utah school district says it is evaluating a parent challenge to the appropriateness of the Book of Mormon for libraries after earlier removing the Bible from the shelves due to a similar challenge.

More than 60% of the King James version of the Bible was lifted word for word from earlier translations, reported Charles C. Butterworth in The Literary Lineage of the King James Bible (University of ...

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 ...

Are you ready for the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible? It will be here before you know it -- the first edition was published, in London, on May 2, 1611. (May 2 has long been an auspicious ...

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 ...