Table of Contents

Introduction
1: The Bible in English
2: The Commissioning of the KJV
3: Translators and Translating
4: The Translation
5: The First Edition
6: The Seventeenth Century
7: The Eighteenth Century
8: The Nineteenth Century
9: The Bible in America
10: The Cambridge Paragraph Bibles
11: The Revised Version
12: The Early Twentieth Century
13: The KJV in the Modern World
Appendix 1: The Companies and Later Revisers
Appendix 2: The Preliminaries to the KJV
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Gordon Campbell is Professor of Renaissance Studies at Leicester University. An authority on Renaissance literature, he is the co-author of John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought (with Thomas N. Corns).

Reviews

"Beautifully crafted book." - New Statesman "A fascinating read." - Church of England Newspaper