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 ...

A History of the English Bible as Literature (revised and condensed from the author's acclaimed History of the Bible as Literature CUP, 1993) explores five hundred years of religious and literary ...

(Winthrop was a Puritan founder of New England and the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.) The Geneva Bible has its origins in the 16th-century English Reformation and the reign of ...

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

Take a look the differences First, the NKJV is a fundamentalist ... Excellent translations such as the Revised English Bible, ...