James 1:13 (off topic)
Theodore H Mann
thmann at juno.com
Mon Jul 17 16:43:05 EDT 2000
Never having researched the issue, I always assumed the KJV was called
the AV because James encouraged and approved (however unofficially) of
the project. Not so?
Ted Mann
thmann at juno.com
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:34:50 -0400 "Frank W. Hughes"
<fwhughes at sunbeach.net> writes:
> This is perhaps more on the King James Version of the Bible than
> anyone
> ever wanted to know. Robert G. Bratcher in the article on "English
> Bible, The," in The HarperCollins Bible Dictionary (San Francisco:
> Harper, 1996) 289f. notes that King James I in 1604 ordered that "a
> translation be made of the whole Bible, as consonant as can be to
> the
> original Hebrew and Greek, and this is to be set out and printed
> without
> any marginal notes and only to be used in all Churches in England in
> time of Divine Service." As Supreme Governor of the Church of
> England
> perhaps he believed that he had the right to order that this new
> translation to the exclusion of the others. On the other hand, the
> article on the "Authorized Version / King James Bible" in volume 3
> of
> The Cambridge History of the Bible by S. L. Greenslade notes that
> "strictly speaking" neither King nor Parliament authorized the
> Authorized Version. I would add that neither did the Convocations
> of
> Clergy convened by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
> Greenslade
> also mentioned that the churches were not ordered to procure a copy
> for
> use in services (as they were for the Great Bible and, I believe,
> the
> Bishops' Bible); and for decades the other versions were used as
> well in
> England. Since, as F. F. Bruce noted, the Privy Council registers
> for
> the years of 1611 and immediately after were lost in a fire, the
> argument that the Privy Council "probably" authorized the use of the
> new
> translation is an argumentum e silentio at very best.
>
> Apparently the edition of 1611 is known as the Authorized Version in
> England and the King James Version in America. As an American
> living in
> Barbados, I can tell you that this would be neither the first nor
> last
> occasion upon which the British Commonwealth and America are rightly
> said to be divided by a common language!
>
> Frank W. Hughes
> Codrington College
> Barbados
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