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Commissioning of the King James Bible Translation Begins

Type Event Region Europe Time 1604

In January 1604, England's King James I ordered a scholarly committee formed after the Hampton Court Conference, launching the English translation of…

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  1. 1604Hampton Court · SurreyJames I convened bishops of the Church of England and Puritan representatives at Hampton Court to address Reformation demands and approved forming a scholarly committee to replace the multiplicity of existing translations with a unified, authoritative English Bible.
  2. 1604London · LondonSix groups of scholars appointed by the king began sectional translation and cross-review at Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster, revising the English text against Hebrew, Greek, and Latin source texts, marking the formal start of the King James Bible project.

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