King James Bible Research Paper

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The King James Bible is something that the majority of all human have ran across. For most it is the Bible of choice until recent times. It plays a part of the fabric of life for most Christians. This work has changed the narration on a lot of events in human history. It has promoted growth in literature is even being used to teach individual how to read. It has spread the religion of Christianity because it allowed many users to read the Bible for themselves. Instead of being told what the Greek or Hebrew translation says by the Priest who could read it. This work has been used for personal gain in politics, race, and anything dealing with power. The biggest impact I believe the King James Bible has created besides the spreading of the Gospel …show more content…

Those three Bibles are the Geneva Bible and The Bishops Bible. The Geneva Bible was first published in 1560 in Geneva in modern day Switzerland. The city of Geneva, Switzerland, had become the headquarters for the refugee English Puritans. This area was a Protestant haven, it was the place to that John Calvin, and followers came to. There was a group of three English scholars who took in hand the task of producing a more accurate translation of the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English. This was the Geneva Bible. The reason or the motivation for the production of the Geneva Bible was to make the Bible accessible. But in actuality, the Old Testament of the Geneva followed the text of, the Great Bible of 1539, and the New Testament of this edition appears to be a conscious revision of Whittingham text of 1557. Who was the main writer of the Geneva Bible who left before it finalizations. From most of the information I gathered The King James Bible was published in 1611 in a response to the Geneva Bible. The Geneva Bible was the most popular English language version in the years leading up to …show more content…

From the research I gather there were two sides at the Hampton conference. The Puritan representatives who were invited to the conference were not members of the petions they were moderates. They were led by John Reynolds, master of Corpus Christi College of the Oxford and Dean of Lincoln. He had a good relationship with Archbishop Whitgift and he was also friends with Henry Robinson, bishop of Carlisle. The Puritans were unfortunately not heard until the second day of the conference. James apparently was not so understanding to certain Puritan suggestions. He was not found to the idea of that there should be more involvement of the lower clergy into the church. He was quoted as saying” No bishop no King', implying that one could not exist without the other.” John had completely irritated the King, and it gave him the opportunity to affirm that church government would remain Episcopalian (which is a hierarchy of bishops) as long as he was in

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