The King James Bible, the most famous version of the world’s most influential book, was published on this day in history, May 2, 1611. "The King James, or Authorized, Version of the Bible ...

Words from a doubly alien culture, not an original text but a translation ... the monarch’s loyal secretary, in 1611 as the King James Bible came off the presses. The adherents of another ...

One of James's great contributions to England was the Authorised King James's Version of the bible (1611) which was to become the standard text for more than 250 years. But he disappointed the ...

The King James Version of the Bible came by its name because it was published in 1611 under the auspices ... the "purity and ...

Yet it produced many of the high points of English culture, from the masterworks of Jacobean theatre to the King James Bible to the work of John Donne. In government, science and finance ...