King james version biography

When Queen Elizabeth I died in , Scotland and England united under King James VI of Scotland who then became King James I of England, the first of the Stuart line.

King james version biography

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James, born a Catholic but raised a Protestant, ascended to the Scottish throne in at the age of one when his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was imprisoned and forced to abdicate.

The idea of researching and writing a new translation of the Bible was broached at a religious conference in Aberdour, Fife.

The Scottish Reformation was finished before the English Reformation. Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians wanted a new Bible that would not carry the same structure of the Bishops' Bible and the Anglican Church.

The other translations available were the Tyndale version and the Geneva Bible.

King James argued that ekklesia in Matthew which referred to Christ building His "congregation" in the Tyndale translation, should be translated "church." And Ja