King James Bible Research Paper

The King James Bible is something that the majority of all human have ran across. For most it is the Bible of choice until recent times. It plays a part of the fabric of life for most Christians. This work has changed the narration on a lot of events in human history. It has promoted growth in literature is even being used to teach individual how to read. It has spread the religion of Christianity because it allowed many users to read the Bible for themselves. Instead of being told what the Greek or Hebrew translation says by the Priest who could read it. This work has been used for personal gain in politics, race, and anything dealing with power. The biggest impact I believe the King James Bible has created besides the spreading of the Gospel

is promoting the English language. When you think of the most impactful English literary work you will have to include the bible and Shakespeare and the King James Bible was first. So the intent is for the reader to understand the process that went about revising the most important books in the world and see the different side of the table when it was authored.
In order to get a concept of the King James Bible you first have to look at the three Bibles presiding before it.

Those three Bibles are the Geneva Bible and The Bishops Bible. The Geneva Bible was first published in 1560 in Geneva in modern day Switzerland. The city of Geneva, Switzerland, had become the headquarters for the refugee English Puritans. This area was a Protestant haven, it was the place to that John Calvin, and followers came to. There was a group of three English scholars who took in hand the task of producing a more accurate translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English. This was the Geneva Bible. The reason or the motivation for the production of the Geneva Bible was to make the Bible accessible. But in actuality, the Old Testament of the Geneva followed the text of, the Great Bible of 1539, and the New Testament of this edition appears to be a conscious revision of Whittingham text of 1557. Who was the main writer of the Geneva Bible who left before it finalizations. From most of the information I gathered The King James Bible was published in 1611 in a response to the Geneva Bible. The Geneva Bible was the most popular English language version in the years leading up to

1611.
Following the Geneva bible we transition to the Bishop Bible of 1568. This was the transitional bible that eventually became the KJV. The Church of England had produced the Bishops' Bible. It was quickly translated by a dozen or so bishops in 1568, with a large image of the Queen herself on the title page. The actual name of this version is The Holie Bibleconteynyng the olde Testament and the newe For the most part the Geneva Bible was a far better translation than the Bishop Bible. The study notes of Geneva were not favored by the Church of England or the Elizabethan Church. Which is the technical name of the Church of England at this time, because the queen was Elizabeth the I. It was used for a short period of time. There were three different revisions of this bible and the last version was revised in 1602.
But before these bible where the Tyndale Bible. This came about in 1520s this was the first dramatic that was progress was made in producing a full English version of the Bible. Tyndale started work on it in England, but spent time in Wittenberg. He worked from Erasmus’ Greek text and set out to produce a version in living English that even a ploughboy could understand. For the most part Tryandale was successful. Later on translators had found it impossible to improve on many of his renderings, which appeared in version after version down to the time of the King James Bible.
To understand a grasp of how and why the King James Bible was commissioned you have to get a grasp who King James was. King James was born on 19 June 1566 in Edinburgh Castle. His mother was Mary, Queen of Scots and his father, her second husband, Lord Darnley. Darnley was murdered in February 1567. In July his mother Mary was forced to step down from her throne in favor of her infant son. James's tutor, the historian and poet George Buchanan, was a positive influence and James was a capable scholar. In fact, as a young king he was kept fairly isolated, but was given a good education until the age of 14. He studied Greek, French, and Latin and made good use of a library of classical and religious writings. He also had written small treatises on subjects as diverse as kingship, the evils of tobacco, and the book of Revelation. A succession of regents had ruled the country will he was being taught his education. They ruled until 1576, when James turned 15 and became sole ruler. He actually did not take full control 1581. In 1586, James and Elizabeth I became allies under the Treaty of Berwick ( at this time he was the only the ruler of Scotland). His new ally had executed his mother the following year. Surprisingly, he did not fight back against Elizabeth for killing his mom. On March 1603, Elizabeth died and James became king of England and Ireland in a remarkably smooth transition of power. After 1603 he only visited Scotland once, in 1617.
Historians now tend to see the Hampton Court Conference, which met in January 1604 as an attempt to drive a wedge between the moderate and radical Puritans.

From the research I gather there were two sides at the Hampton conference. The Puritan representatives who were invited to the conference were not members of the petions they were moderates. They were led by John Reynolds, master of Corpus Christi College of the Oxford and Dean of Lincoln. He had a good relationship with Archbishop Whitgift and he was also friends with Henry Robinson, bishop of Carlisle. The Puritans were unfortunately not heard until the second day of the conference. James apparently was not so understanding to certain Puritan suggestions. He was not found to the idea of that there should be more involvement of the lower clergy into the church. He was quoted as saying” No bishop no King', implying that one could not exist without the other.” John had completely irritated the King, and it gave him the opportunity to affirm that church government would remain Episcopalian (which is a hierarchy of bishops) as long as he was in

charge.
On the third and which was the final day James summarized decisions made. 'Popish remnants' would remain in the Church, but concessions were to be made regarding the Book of Common Prayer, private baptism, excommunication, church courts, the disciplinary role of the bishops, and a uniform catechism for the kingdom, and James also accepted Reynolds' proposal for a new translation of the Bible. Reynolds hoped of course for a Puritan-style bible which omitted such words as 'bishop' and 'church'. James particularly disliked the Geneva Bible (most commonly used in England from 1560) which contained marginal notes that, in his opinion, made it undermining of monarchy in places . In other words, the decision to produce a new bible was not a concession to the Puritans, but a calculated political and religious move on James' part, to create a version to his liking. Reynolds himself would even go on to work on the new translation of the Bible.
The other side would be the monarchy and the followers of the Church of England. This new monarch was king, James I of England and James VI of Scotland. The first issue consivingly was that the Puritans already had the Geneva Bible (including its glosses). At that time was the most popular version currently being used. It was believed that Reynolds and his companions knew that James was set on getting rid of the Geneva Bible. An was why they were invited instead of the petitioners. So in hence forth they seemingly were prepared to assist in the production of one the new Bible. James was steadfast that he wanted a new translation that he declare
“I could never yet see a Bible well-translated into English but I think that of all, of Geneva is the worse. I wish some special pains were taken for a uniform translation; which should be done by the best learned in both universities, then reviewed by the bishops, presented to the privy council, lastly ratified by royal authority, to be read in the whole church, and no other”.
So a plan was formed. There where Ground rules that were established by 1604: no contentious notes in the margins; no language inaccessible to common people; a true and accurate text, driven by an unforgivingly exacting level of scholarship. To bring this about, the King gathered an enormous translation committee: some 54 scholars, divided into all shades of opinion, from Puritan to the highest of High Churchmen. Six subcommittees were then each asked to translate a different section of the Bible.