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The King James Bible: One Version of the Greatest Story Ever Told

5/17/2014

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In 1611, a group of men completed what has become one of the most well-known translations of the Bible. But why did King James ask them to do it?

Podcasters: Elizabeth and Nathan                                      

Further Reading

Adam Nicolson, God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible.  Harper Collins, 2005.

Alister Mcgrath, In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture.  Anchor, 2002.

​Music by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)
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John Keohane
5/26/2014 03:13:19 am

I would add to your recommended reading list from the Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History series "King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom" by W. B. Patterson, Professor of History at the University of the South.

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