who was king james the man that edited the bible?
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and why was the real version of the biblle edited by people outside of the land that the bible was written in
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and why was the real version of the biblle edited by people outside of the land that the bible was written in
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February 14 2010 01:02 pm | Religion & Spirituality
funkymunky1119 on 16 Feb 2010 at 6:21 pm #
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king james is lebron james not some guy from the bible lol
Super Jules on 20 Feb 2010 at 6:15 am #
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It was rewritten in a vernacular that the people could better understand.
ghost on 23 Feb 2010 at 4:27 pm #
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The King of England around the time of the Revolutionary war, he had it translated.
Lex A on 23 Feb 2010 at 7:10 pm #
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he wanted a very accurate version because he was a very spiritual man so he gathered up the oldest manuscripts of the bible and had the best scholars from all around the world translate them
peersignal on 25 Feb 2010 at 4:15 am #
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King James ordered, and paid for, the translation of that version from Greek to English.
emmapeel66 on 25 Feb 2010 at 9:14 pm #
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King James I of England had it commissioned. He didn’t actually do it. A lot of translations of the Bible have been done outside the Holy land.
D-13 on 28 Feb 2010 at 3:15 am #
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yes he rewrote the bible.. and i hear his version sux.
D M on 01 Mar 2010 at 10:10 pm #
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i understand he was an english king that was given (or took) authority to have the manuscript translated into the language and cultural references of his day so it would be easily undersatood and accepted by his poeple.
Hoosier Daddy on 03 Mar 2010 at 6:12 pm #
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James was only its sponsor, not an editor nor translator. And the KJV is one translation among many.
Kenny A on 04 Mar 2010 at 12:12 am #
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King James was the King that ordered the Bible translated into English.
Wayne T on 07 Mar 2010 at 11:17 am #
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He was a king in England and he did not edit the Bible, he just authorized a translation and picked a bunch of language scholars to do the job. Some people think he gave some instructions about how he wanted some of it translated but I don’t know if that’s really right. The translation he authorized was not the first English translation.
.skjceuafrepiuahfpoefhpieuaf on 09 Mar 2010 at 10:01 am #
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King James wanted an English version so he had the Bible translated into English.
typicalnotme on 12 Mar 2010 at 7:24 pm #
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You can Google this and find all the answers. I could copy and paste but it is pretty long.
Sweet Suzy 777! on 14 Mar 2010 at 9:08 am #
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The 16th century king of England, he had the scriptures translated into English.
The bible has been translated into all the different languages, so people all over the world can read it.
Diane H on 16 Mar 2010 at 3:59 am #
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King James didn’t edit the bible, it was transcribed by dozens of highly educated men.
BrotherMichael on 19 Mar 2010 at 12:13 am #
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The King James Bible (l6ll)—The confusion resulting from the use of several different English translations at the same time led finally in 1611 to the publishing of the King James Bible to replace all of them.
When James became king in 1603, he convened a meeting of Anglican bishops and Puritan clergy to settle differences among them over the various translations. When it was suggested a new translation be made from the Greek and
Hebrew with marginal notes restricted to matters of language and parallel passages, the king approved it.
King James appointed 54 scholars to do the work, with 47 of them actually participating. They were divided into six groups to work on different portions of the Bible. Each group’s completed work was reviewed by a committee of 12,consisting of two men from each of the six groups. Final differences were settled by a general meeting.
The Authorized (King James) Version of 1611 was technically a revision of the 1602 edition of the Bishops’ Bible, which included the Apocrypha. So the first edition of the King James Version included the Apocrypha! In 1615 the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury forbid the binding or selling of Bibles without the Apocrypha on penalty of a year in prison, in response to the opposition of the Puritans to use of the Apocrypha. Nevertheless, copies of the King James Version without the Apocrypha were produced beginning in 1626.
It is worth noting that the British and Foreign Bible Society, formed in Great Britain in 1804, chose to end the practice of distributing editions of the Bible containing the Apocrypha in 1826. When no protests came from the public, other Bible publishers adopted the same practice. For a century and a half now, it has been practically impossible to buy over the counter in any ordinary bookshop in Britain or America a copy of the King James Version containing the Apocrypha.
The King James Bible didn’t receive immediate acceptance by church members. It took almost 50 years for it to gain a higher place than the Geneva Bible.
But once it was fully accepted, the King James Bible became the Bible of choice of English-speaking people for the next 300 years. Its beauty of language comes from the period of Shakespeare and Milton, and its heartfelt message breathes from a century when translators had given their lives through fire and sword to deliver the Bible to the people.
The King James translators, like the English Bible translators before them, were not without their theological biases. They were primarily Church of England theologians who had inherited much of their theology and church practices from more than 1500 years of church tradition. For example, since the Church of England practiced infant baptism and sprinkling, the translators followed the decision of earlier English translators to transliterate the Greek word “baptizo” into English as “baptize” rather than translate it correctly as “immerse.”
The popularity of the King James Bible put an end to major church efforts to publish English translations, but private individuals continued to produce new translations.
leonard s on 22 Mar 2010 at 6:01 am #
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The christian bible is an edited book made up of some books and not others.the King James edition was badly translated in the reign of king James not by the king.It’s the most widely used version in the English speaking world. many of the contradictions were from the bad translation,for example the ten commandants actually reads ten suggestion’s . they did the best that they could for the time and era that did the translation
shaz wales on 25 Mar 2010 at 6:54 am #
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Bible King James edition was named after king James 1st.He agreed to a new edition in 1611 at the ‘Hampon court conference’ it was produced by about 50 scholars and was for centuries the bible of English speaking countries.King James 1566-1625 was James 6th of Scotland 1567-1625 he became James 1st of England and Ireland as well 1603-1625 on death of Elizabeth 1st.