The King James Bible is receiving renewed attention to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication.
As anyone who has tried to read a facsimile of an early edition will attest there have been some revisions of the original since its publication.
Michael Bird has a short post which summarises a published article on the path which the King James Bible has taken to arrive at its present form.
The purpose of which is not to denigrate the KJB, but to remember that it was never intended to be treated as a document equal to those texts of which it is a translation.
Now anyone who has been in church circles long enough will have met some very peculiar folks with very strong views about the King James Bible of 1611. What such zealous albeit ignorant chaps don’t know is that the modern KJB is not identical to the 1611 KJB. I’ve always known that this was the case, though I never knew the exact details, but an overview of the diverse KJB editions is conveniently summarized in a short article by Simon Wong, “Which King James Bible Are We Talking About?”
Read the whole post at Euangelion.
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