Bible: the story of the King James Version ; 1611-2011 [1. publ. in pbk ed.] 9780199557592, 0199557594, 9780199693016, 0199693013

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Bible: the story of the King James Version ; 1611-2011 [1. publ. in pbk ed.]
 9780199557592, 0199557594, 9780199693016, 0199693013

Table of contents :
Introduction
1. The Bible in English
2. The Commissioning of the KJV
3. Translators and Translating
4. The Translation
5. The First Edition
6. The Seventeenth Century
7. The Eighteenth Century
8. The Nineteenth Century
9. The Bible in America
10. The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles
11. The Revised Version
12. The Early Twentieth Century
13. The KJV in the Modern World
Appendix 1: The Companies and Later Revisers
Appendix 2: The Preliminaries to the KJV
Further Reading
Index

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