Andy brought next idea :
> If they read the pre-1611 version of the Bible as dictated by King
> Regnant James I of England , they're probably outcasts.
>
> That old stuff is so 16th century! Everyone is into the 17th century
> version these days.
Another dumbass.
The King James Version (KJV), commonly known as the Authorized Version
(AV) or King James Bible (KJB), is an English translation of the
Christian Bible for the Church of England begun in 1604 and completed
in 1611.[2] First printed by the King's Printer Robert Barker,[3][4]
this was the third translation into English to be approved by the
English Church authorities. The first was the Great Bible commissioned
in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second was the Bishops' Bible
of 1568.[5] In January 1604, King James I of England convened the
Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in
response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as
detected by the Puritans,[6] a faction within the Church of England.[7]
James gave the translators instructions intended to guarantee that the
new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal
structure of the Church of England and its belief in an ordained
clergy.[8] The translation was done by 47 scholars, all of whom were
members of the Church of England.[9] In common with most other
translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from
Greek, the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew text, while the
Apocrypha were translated from the Greek and Latin. In the Book of
Common Prayer (1662), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the
text of the Great Bible – for Epistle and Gospel readings – and as such
was authorized by Act of Parliament.[10] By the first half of the 18th
century, the Authorized Version was effectively unchallenged as the
English translation used in Anglican and Protestant churches. Over the
course of the 18th century, the Authorized Version supplanted the Latin
Vulgate as the standard version of scripture for English speaking
scholars. Today, the most used edition of the King James Bible, and
often identified as plainly the King James Version or King James
Version, especially in the United States, remains the standard text of
1769, edited by Benjamin Blayney and Francis Sawyer Parris at Oxford.