![]() ![]() "The problem with the Geneva Bible was it had marginal notes," says David Lyle Jeffrey, a historian of biblical interpretation at Baylor University. The Geneva Bible was the choice of the Puritans and the people: It was bolder, more accessible. ![]() ![]() The Bishops' Bible was read in churches: It was clunky, inelegant. "He spoke with a heavy Scottish accent, and one of the things he needed to legitimize himself as head of the Church of England was a Bible dedicated to him."Īt that time, England was in a Bible war between two English translations. "He was regarded as a foreigner," says Gordon Campbell, a historian at the University of Leicester in England. What he found was a country suspicious of the new king. Let's travel back to 1603: King James I, who had ruled Scotland, ascended to the throne of England. Appointed to be read in Churches." Click Here To See A Larger Version The title page of the first edition of the King James Bible from 1611 reads: "Newly Translated out of the Originall tongues: & with the former Translations diligently compared and revised, by his Majesties speciall Comandement. ![]()
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