Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...
The “apocrypha” is still present in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles. Protestant Bibles have gradually removed them since the 1800s, as Protestant denominations do not view them as divinely inspired ...
NEW YORK — At the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, a portrait of King James I, who ascended to the English throne in 1603, looks out on display cases of rare Bibles. In 1604, King James authorized ...