From: Theodore H Mann (thmann@juno.com)
Date: Mon Jul 17 2000 - 16:43:05 EDT
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@juno.com
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 16:34:50 -0400 "Frank W. Hughes"
<fwhughes@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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