There are two reasons, translations and texts, both of which have cropped up in the news of religion this year. The venerable King James Version (KJV) appeared without changes over centuries. Today, ...

How The King James Bible 'Begat' English Idioms In Begat, David Crystal sets out to prove that the King James Bible has contributed more to the English language than any other literary source.If ...

Nor were critical voices wanting when the British Revised Version appeared—the New Testament in 1881 and the whole Bible in 1885. Dean Burgon, no mean textual scholar and a master of English ...

There are more than 100 different bible translations available in English today, and scholars have translated parts of the Bible into more than 3,000 languages. Many claims that the Bible has been ...

There is a tendency in modern Bibles to prefer translations that make the text sound as though a native speaker of English had written it. To use a formulation of Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834), ...

The first English-language translation of the Bible in the United States will become an “official state book” in Tennessee on July 1. Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, signed a bill on Tuesday ...