The Authorized Version, commonly known as the King James Version, the King James Bible or simply the KJV, is an English translation by the Church of England of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and completed in 1611. First printed by the King's Printer, Robert Barker, this was the third such official translation into English; the first having been the Great Bible commissioned by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second having been the Bishop's Bible of 1568.  In January 1604, King James I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

James gave the translators instructions intended to guarantee that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its beliefs about an ordained clergy. The translation was by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the Church of England. In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from Greek, the Old Testament was translated from Hebrew text, while the Apocrypha were translated from the Greek and Latin.

In the Book of Common Prayer (1662), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the text of the Great Bible - for Epistle and Gospel readings - and as such was authorized by Act of Parliament. By the first half of the 18th century, the Authorized Version was effectively unchallenged as the English translation used in Anglican and other Protestant churches. Over the course of the 18th century, the Authorized Version supplanted the Latin Vulgate as the standard version of scripture for English speaking scholars.

By the mid-18th Century the wide variation in the various modernized printed texts of the Authorized Version, combined with the notorious accumulation of misprints, had reached the proportion of a scandal, and the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge both sought to produce an updated standard text. The 1769 Oxford edition, edited by Benjamin Blayney (Herbert #1196), became the Oxford standard text, and is reproduced almost unchanged in most current printings.

 On July 22 in 1604, King James I wrote to Bishop Bancroft that he had "appointed certain learned men to the number of four and fifty for the translating of the Bible." 

Adapted from www.wikipedia.org

101 Series
Sunday July 24th, 2011 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM 

Please Join the Guibord Center as we learn of the following traditions from the inside out - from the heart: Sikhism, Buddhism, Indigenous Spirituality, and Hinduism. 

Our presenters for this series are members of the Advisory Council to The Guibord Center.  Each name links to their photo and biography for additional information.
 
Hinduism 101
Sunday, July 24th: Led by Swami Saradevananda, Vedanta Society of Southern California 

All classes are open to everyone and free of charge. They will be held at St. John's Episcopal Cathedral, 514 W. Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, 90007

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PRELUDE 

"Sheep May Safely Graze"

- J.S. Bach, arr. Daniel Pinkham

 
POSTLUDE

Toccata from "Suite Gothique"

- Leon Boellmann

Saturday, July 23, 2011 at 5:00pm

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