The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Its literary brilliance is well known and its words and phrases have had a unique influence on the English language. Four hundred years ...

4. The Rheims-Douay Bible. The most widely used English Catholic translation (from the Latin Vulgate) of the Bible is the Rheims-Douay or Douay Version. In the reign of Queen Elizabeth many ...

Ryan Walters' preferred Bible is not the best choice, and requiring its use in schools violates the separation of church and ...

For America's first 200 years – well into the 1850s – the primary if not only textbook in grammar schools was the Bible.