Publication of the King James Bible

Name: Publication of the King James Bible
Start: 1611

Type Event Region Europe Time 1611

In 1611, under King James I's authority, an English Bible translated by dozens of scholars at Westminster, Cambridge, and Oxford was published in Lon…

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1611London · LondonThe translation project launched by James I after the 1604 Hampton Court Conference was carried out by six groups of scholars on the Old Testament, New Testament, and Apocrypha, and finally published in London by printers including Robert Barker as the Authorized Version, later known as the King James Bible.

Sources

King James Version https://www.britannica.com/topic/King-James-Version
The Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume 3: The West from the Reformation to the Present Day — S. L. Greenslade (1963)