Bible: The Story of the King James Version Audiobook (Free)

This is a brief history from the Ruler James Edition of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Edition) on the four hundred years from its remote beginnings for this day.

Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the exciting and complex story of how this translation had become commissioned, of who the translators were, and of the way the translation was achieved. The story does not end using the printing of that first model, but introduces the next years about Bible: The Story from the King James Edition who edited and interacted with the written text. The present text of the King James Edition differs in thousands of small details from the initial edition. Campbell traces the textual history from 1611 to the establishment of the present day text by Oxford University or college Press in 1769.

Attitudes towards the Ruler James Version have got shifted through period and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a wide variety of adherents. It is even more widely read in America today than in virtually any other country, and its particular history in there is given due attention.

This volume really helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version across the world today.