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1611-2011 Four hundred years of the King James
Bible
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PART 1:
ANTECEDENTS
(from Wycliffe to Burntisland)
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“The Morning Star”: John Wycliffe, the
Lollards and the English Bible (Trevor Maher) |
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A life for the Word of God: The legacy
of William Tyndale (Nicholas White) |
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PART 2: THE MAKING OF THE KJV
(from Hampton Court to 1611) |
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The KJV: a chronology |
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“The most fitting monument”: King James
I as sponsor of the KJV (Nigel Bernard) |
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“Grave, learned and reverend men”: The
KJV translators and how they worked together on their common
task (Eric Marshall) |
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The sources of the KJV: The Hebrew and
Greek manuscripts used and the debt to earlier translations
(Jonathan Burke) |
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“Wholly inspired”: The King James
Version translators’ faith in the Bible as the very Word of
God (John Nicholls) |
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The Translators to the Reader: What the
KJV translators themselves had to say about their work
(Jeremy Thomas) |
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The Word of God in print: The first
publication of the KJV (Reg Carr) |
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In the language of Shakespeare: The
King James Version as a product of the ‘golden age’ of
English literature (Paul Tovell) |
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The Textus Receptus: A background note
(Reg Carr) |
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PART 3: RECEPTION, INFLUENCE
AND LONG-TERM VALUE
(from 1611 to the present day) |
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“Appointed to be read in Churches”: The
influence of the KJV on the English language (Esther Ashton) |
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Unrevised for centuries: The remarkable
longevity of the King James Version (John Thorpe) |
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A reliable translation? For and against
the accuracy of the KJV (Andrew Perry) |
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Upstaged by modernity? The value of the
King James Version in the twenty-first century (David
Burges) |
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“The most valuable thing that this
world affords”: The English coronation ceremony and the KJV
(Jeremy Thomas) |
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The KJV: a bibliography (Reg Carr) |
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