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==References== ===Notes=== {{Notelist|refs= <!--{{efn|name=AV|and the {{as written|Authorized}} Version (AV) of 1611.}}--> {{efn|name=Norton|{{harvnb|Norton|2011|p=x}} notes: "In all likelihood, the first edition of the King James Bible was hurried through the press before the translators had fully completed their work. One of the casualties of this hurry was the paragraphing. It emerged rough and incomplete: for instance, there are no paragraph breaks marked in the New Testament after Acts 20.}} }} ===Citations=== {{Reflist}} ===Works cited=== {{refbegin|30em|indent=yes}} * {{cite book |last1=Adams|first1=David Phineas |last2=Thacher|first2=Samuel Cooper |last3=Emerson|first3=William |title = The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review |url = https://archive.org/details/monthlyantholog04socigoog |year=1811 |publisher=Munroe and Francis }} * {{cite book |author=Anon.|title=A call to the Jews |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ai83AAAAMAAJ |year=1783|publisher=J. Johnson}} * {{cite book |author=Anon.|title=The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=lPbVAAAAMAAJ |year=1801|publisher=J. Whittle}} * {{cite book |author=Anon.|title=Missionary Register |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6nICAAAAYAAJ |year=1814 |publisher=Seeley, Jackson, & Halliday for the [[Church Missionary Society]] }} * {{cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=7EIRAAAAIAAJ | title = The Original Secession Magazine |volume= ii | location=Edinburgh | author=Anon. | publisher=Moodie and Lothian | year=1856 }} * {{cite book |author=Anon.|title=The Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Bible Collection: A Checklist |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=z-woAAAACAAJ |year=1996|publisher=Bridwell Library|isbn=978-0-941881-19-7}} * {{Cite book | title=Early modern English | first=Charles Laurence | last=Barber | edition = 2nd | publisher=Edinburgh University Press | year=1997 | isbn=0-7486-0835-4 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Iat4Bk_YeR4C | location=Edinburgh }} * {{cite book |last=Bobrick |first=Benson |title = Wide as the waters: the story of the English Bible and the revolution it inspired |publisher=Simon & Schuster |location=New York |year=2001 |isbn=0-684-84747-7 |url-access=registration |url = https://archive.org/details/wideaswatersstor0000bobr }} * {{cite book |last1= Bois|first1=John|author1-link=John Bois |last2= Allen |first2=Ward|last3= Walker|first3=Anthony |oclc=607818272 |title = Translating for King James; being a true copy of the only notes made by a translator of King James's Bible, the Authorized Version, as the Final Committee of Review revised the translation of Romans through Revelation at Stationers' Hall in London in 1610β1611. Taken by John Bois ... these notes were for three centuries lost, and only now are come to light, through a copy made by the hand of William Fulman. Here translated and edited by Ward Allen. |year= 1969 |publisher=Vanderbilt University Press |location=Nashville }} * {{cite book |last=Browne|first=George |title = History of the British and Foreign Bible Society |url = https://archive.org/details/historybritisha00browgoog |page=[https://archive.org/details/historybritisha00browgoog/page/n386 362]|year=1859}} * {{Cite book |last=Bruce |first=Frederick Fyvie |author-link = Frederick Fyvie Bruce |title=History of the Bible in English |publisher=Lutterworth Press |location=Cambridge |year=2002 |isbn=0-7188-9032-9 }} * {{cite book |title = Horae Biblicae |volume = 1 | first=Charles | last=Butler | edition= 4th | year=1807 | location=London | publisher=J. White | oclc = 64048851 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=MHVAAAAAcAAJ }} * {{cite book |last= Chadwick |first=Owen |title=The Victorian Church Part II|publisher=A&C Black|location=Edinburgh |year=1970 |isbn= 0-334-02410-2 }} * {{cite book | url = https://archive.org/details/americanismversu00chap | year=1856 | location=Nashville, TN | publisher=the author | title=Americanism versus Romanism: or the cis-Atlantic battle between Sam and the pope | first=James L. | last=Chapman | oclc= 1848388 }} * {{Cite book |last=Daiches |first=David |author-link = David Daiches |title = The King James Version of the English Bible: An Account of the Development and Sources of the English Bible of 1611 With Special Reference to the Hebrew Tradition |publisher=Archon Books |location=Hamden, Conn |year=1968 |isbn=0-208-00493-9 }} * {{Cite book |last=Daniell |first=David |title=The Bible in English: its history and influence |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |location=New Haven, Conn |year=2003 |isbn=0-300-09930-4 |url-access=registration |url = https://archive.org/details/bibleinenglishit0000dani }} * {{cite book |last=DeCoursey|first=Matthew |editor = Edward A. Malone |title=British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500β1660: Second series |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=e9EUAQAAIAAJ |year=2003|publisher=Gale Group|isbn=978-0-7876-6025-3}} * {{cite book |last=Dore|first=John Read |title=Old Bibles: An Account of the Early Versions of the English Bible |url = https://archive.org/details/oldbiblesanacco00doregoog |edition=2nd |year=1888|publisher=Eyre and Spottiswoode}} * {{cite book | editor1-last=Douglas | editor1-first=James Dixon |title = New International Dictionary of the Christian Church |url = https://archive.org/details/newinternational0000doug | url-access=registration | year =1974 | publisher = Zondervan }} * {{Cite book | first= S. L. | last = Greenslade | chapter = English Versions of the Bible, 1525β1611 | editor-first = S. L. | editor-last = Greenslade | title = The Cambridge History of the Bible, Volume III: The West From Reformation to Present Day | location = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press | year = 1963 | pages = 141β175 }} * {{cite book |last=Melton|first=J. Gordon |title=Encyclopedia of Protestantism |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=bW3sXBjnokkC&pg=PA38 |year=2005|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0-8160-6983-5}} * {{cite book |last=Hacket|first=John |title = Bishop Hacket's Memoirs of the Life of Archbishop Williams ... Abridg'd: With the Most Remarkable Occurrences and Transactions in Church and State |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=JosAAAAAMAAJ |year=1715 |publisher=Sam. Briscoe }} * {{cite book | last = Hague | first = Dyson | title = Through the Prayer Book | publisher = Church Book Room Press | year = 1948 }} * {{cite book |last=Hall|first=Isaac Hollister |title=The Revised New Testament and History of Revisions |url = http://www.bible-researcher.com/kjvhist.html |year=1881 |publisher=Hubbard Bros.}} * {{cite book |last=Herbert|first=A. S. |title=Historical Catalogue of Printed Editions of the English Bible, 1525β1961, Etc |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=uTLRMgEACAAJ |year=1968 |publisher=British and Foreign Bible Society }} * {{cite book |last=Hill |first = Christopher |author-link = John Edward Christopher Hill |title=The English Bible and the seventeenth-century revolution |publisher=Allen Lane |location=London |year=1993 |isbn=0-7139-9078-3 }} * {{Cite book | last = Hill | first = Christopher |author-link= John Edward Christopher Hill | title = Society and Puritanism in pre-revolutionary England | year = 1997 | publisher=St. Martin's Press | location = New York | isbn = 0-312-17432-2 }} * {{cite book |last=Hobbes|first=Thomas |title=Leviathan |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=aDfNngEACAAJ |year=2010|publisher=Broadview Press|isbn=978-1-55481-003-1}} * {{cite book | title=The Christian Disciple |volume= iii | location=Boston | publisher=Cummings & Hilliard | year=1815 | contribution=An Historical sketch of the English translations of the Bible | first=A. | last=Holmes | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=rynBWYs2veMC&pg=PA242 | editor-first=Noah |editor-last=Worcester }} * {{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8KQUAAAAQAAJ| title = An introduction to the critical study and knowledge of the holy Scriptures, Vol. 2| first=Thomas Hartwell |last=Horne |year=1818 |location=London | publisher=T. Cadell and A Davies}} * {{cite book |last=Kenyon|first=Sir Frederic G. |editor=James Hastings|title=Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible |chapter-url = http://www.bible-researcher.com/kjv1.html |year=1909|publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York|isbn=978-1-56563-915-7|chapter=English Versions}} * {{cite book |title=The history of England, from the earliest accounts, to the accession of his present Majesty King George III |first=Isaac |last=Kimber |edition=5th |year=1775 |publisher=J. Buckland |location=London |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofengland00kimb |oclc=14263883}} * {{cite wikisource |ref={{sfnref |KJV Dedicatorie |1611}} |wslink=Bible (King James Version, 1611) |chapter=Epistle Dedicatorie |title=The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible |year=1611}} *{{cite wikisource |ref={{sfnref |KJV Translators to the Reader |1611}} |wslink=Bible (King James Version, 1611) |chapter=Translators to the Reader |title=The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible |year=1611 }} * {{cite book| last=Metzger | first =Bruce M.| title = The Text of the New Testament | publisher = Clarendon | year = 1964 }} * {{cite book | editor1-last = Metzger | editor1-first = Bruce M. | editor2-first = Michael D. | editor2-last = Coogan | title = The Oxford Companion to the Bible | publisher = [[Oxford University Press]] | year = 1993 | location = Oxford | isbn = 0-19-504645-5 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780195046458 }} *{{Cite book|title=The new Cambridge paragraph Bible with the apocrypha : King James version|date=2011|publisher= University Press|last=Norton|first= David|isbn=978-0-521-76284-7|edition=Revised|location=Cambridge|chapter=Editor's introduction|oclc=665139368}} * {{cite book | last1 = Procter | first1 = Francis |last2 = Frere |first2 = Walter Howard | title = A New History of the Book of Common Prayer |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=KEYonQEACAAJ | publisher = MacMillan & Co | year = 1902}} * {{cite book | title = A Literary History of the Bible: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day | first = Geddes | last = MacGregor | author-link = Geddes MacGregor | publisher = Abingdon Press | year = 1968 | lccn = 68011477 | url = https://archive.org/details/aliteraryhistory0000unse/page/170 | url-access = registration }} * {{cite book |last=Newcome|first=William |title=Historical View of the English Biblical Translations|publisher=John Exshaw. |url = https://archive.org/details/historicalviewof00newc |year=1792 }} * {{cite book |last=Newgass |first=Edgar |title=An outline of Anglo-American Bible history |volume= |authorlink= |publisher=London : B.T. Batsford |year=1958 |url=https://archive.org/details/outlineofangloam0000newg |ref=newgass1958 }} * {{cite book |last=Norton |first=David |title = A Textual History of the King James Bible |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=W3oVRK4I7UsC |year=2005 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |isbn=0-521-77100-5 }} * {{cite book |editor-last =Norton |editor-first = David |title=The Bible |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=iFyuAAAACAAJ | publisher=Penguin Classics|year=2006|isbn=0-14-144151-8 }} * {{cite book |editor1-last=Cross | editor1-first = F. L. |editor2-last=Livingstone | editor2-first=E. A. |title = Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church |url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780192115454 |url-access=registration | year =1974 | publisher = Oxford University Press | isbn= 9780192115454 }} * {{cite book | first=Salem | last=Pearse | title=The Second Part of the Celestial Diary | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwumHAAACAAJ | chapter = A Brief Account of the various Translations of the Bible into English | year=1761 | location=London | publisher=Robert Brown | page=79 }} * {{cite book | editor-last = Prickett | editor-first = Stephen | editor2-last =Carroll | editor2-first = Robert P. |title = The Bible: Authorized King James Version |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=xrp73XzJ5aEC |publisher=Oxford University Press, US |year=2008|isbn=978-0-19-953594-1 }} * {{cite book |last=Scrivener |first=Frederick Henry Ambrose |author-link= Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |title= The Authorized Edition of the English Bible, 1611, its subsequent reprints and modern representatives |url= https://archive.org/details/authorizedediti00scrigoog |year= 1884 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location= Cambridge |archive-url=https://archive.org/details/authorizededitio00scri |archive-date=November 10, 2008}} * {{cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=0V0XAAAAYAAJ |location=New York |publisher=T. and J. Swords |first=William |last=Smith |year=1814 |title=The reasonableness of setting forth the most worthy praise of Almighty God: according to the usage of the primitive church |oclc=3512140}} * {{cite book |last= Story |first=G. M. |title= Lancelot Andrewes Sermons |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-seqoAEACAAJ |year= 1967 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford }} * {{cite book |last=Thomas |first=Isaiah |title=The history of printing in America, with a biography of printers |volume=I |publisher=New York, B. Franklin |year=1874 |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofprintin01thom |ref=thomas1874}} * {{cite book |last=Twells|first=Leonard |title = A critical examination of the late new text and version of the New Testament ... Part I |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=5MJUDVQxrg0C |year=1731|location=London|publisher=R.Gosling}} * {{cite book|last1=Wallechinsky|first1=David |last2=Wallace|first2=Irving |title=The People's Almanac |url = https://archive.org/details/peoplesalmanac00wall |url-access=registration|year=1975|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-04186-7}} * {{cite book |last=White|first=James R. |title=The King James Only Controversy: Can You Trust Modern Translations? |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=q7H_2eQC91kC |year=2009|publisher=Baker Books|isbn=978-0-7642-0605-4}} {{refend}} ===Further reading=== {{refbegin}} <small>Chronological order of publication (newest first)</small> * Joalland, Michael. "Isaac Newton Reads the King James Version: The Marginal Notes and Reading Marks of a Natural Philosopher." ''Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America'', vol. 113, no. 3 (2019): 297β339. * Burke, David G., John F. Kutsko, and Philip H. Towner, eds. ''The King James Version at 400: Assessing Its Genius as Bible Translation and Its Literary Influence'' (Society of Biblical Literature; 2013) 553 pages; scholars examine such topics as the KJV and 17th-century religious lyric, the KJV and the language of liturgy, and the KJV in Christian Orthodox perspective. * {{cite book |title=Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language | first =David | last = Crystal |year= 2011 |isbn=978-0-19969518-8 |publisher= Oxford University Press}} * {{cite book|last= Hallihan |first=C.P. |title=Authorized Version: A Wonderful and Unfinished History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EnxAygAACAAJ|year=2010 |publisher=Trinitarian Bible Society|isbn= 978-1-86228-049-6}} Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the initial publication, in 1611, of the Authorized ("King James") Version of the Bible * {{Cite book |last=Keay |first = Julia |title=Alexander the Corrector: the tormented genius who unwrote the Bible |publisher=Harper Perennial |location=London |year=2005 |isbn= 0-00-713196-8 }} * {{Cite book |last=Ehrman |first= Bart D. |author-link=Bart D. Ehrman |title=Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why |publisher=[[HarperSanFrancisco]] |location=San Francisco |year=2005 |isbn=0-06-073817-0 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/misquotingjesuss00ehrm }} * {{cite book |author-link=Adam Nicolson | last =Nicolson | first = Adam |title=Power and Glory: Jacobean England and the Making of the King James Bible |publisher=Harper Collins |location=London |year=2003 |isbn= 0-00-710893-1}} In US:{{cite book |author-mask= | last =Nicolson | first = Adam |title= God's secretaries: the making of the King James Bible |publisher= Harper Collins |location= London |year=2003 |isbn= 0-06-018516-3 |url= https://archive.org/details/godssecretariesm00nico}} Paperback:{{cite book |author-mask= | last = Nicolson | first = Adam | title = When God Spoke English: The Making of the King James Bible |publisher= Harper |location = London |year =2011 |isbn=978-0-00-743100-7}} * {{Cite book |author-link=Alister McGrath | last =McGrath | first = Alister E. |title=In the beginning: the story of the King James Bible and how it changed a nation, a language and a culture |publisher= Anchor Books |location=New York |year=2002 |isbn= 0-385-72216-8 }} * [https://books.google.com/books?id=tC1kuaetNqoC The Diary Of Samuel Ward: A Translator Of The 1611 King James Bible], eds. John Wilson Cowart and M.M. Knappen, contains surviving pages of Samuel Ward's diary from 11 May 1595 to 1 July 1632. * Ward, Thomas (1903). ''Errata of the Protestant Bible [''i.e.'' mostly of the Authorized "King James" Version]; or, The Truth of the English Translations Examined, in a Treatise Showing Some of the Errors That Are to Be Found in the English Translations of the Sacred Scriptures, Used by Protestants''. A new ed., carefully rev. and corr., in which are add[itions]. New York: P.J. Kennedy and Sons. ''N.B''.: A polemical Roman Catholic work, first published in the late 17th century. * {{cite book|title=Collection of English Almanacs for the Years 1702β1835|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s1EsAAAAMAAJ|year=1761}} {{refend}}
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