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First published in 1568, the Bishops’ Bible was issued in its last edition
in 1602. The first of the fifteen rules given for the guidance of the King James
translators stated that the Bishops’ Bible was to be followed “and as little
altered as the truth of the original will permit.” Rule fourteen further
specified certain English translations to be used when they agreed “better
with the text than the Bishops’ Bible.” The Authorized Version was both a revision
of the earlier English Bibles and a translation from the original
languages, all based on the Bishops’ Bible.
The immediate concern of this work, then, is why the Bishops’ Bible, and
the extent to which the King James Bible is indebted to it. And secondarily, the
degree to which the King James Bible relies on the earlier English translations,
other possible sources that might have influenced the translators, and evidence
of the translators at work as they transformed the Bishops’ Bible into the
Authorized Version. The book includes a detailed history of the Bishops’ Bible
and its editions as well as a complete collation of the New Testament of the
1602 Bishops’ Bible with the 1611 Authorized Version.
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