and why did he feel it was soo important to remove portions and create his own version of the bible?
2007-12-22 11:00:54 · 16 answers · asked by *who knew..* 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Um, maybe it's better if you just Google it...and go to the library...the history of James I of Scotland is just way too intense to go into here.
2007-12-22 11:03:13 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was King James VI of Scotland and became James 1 of Great Britain around 1600 AD. You would find more accurate information about his political achievements in a good encyclopedia than on a forum like this.
Some have said he didn't like the Geneva Bible or any of the other, earlier translations so he appointed a group of some of England's best scholars to "translate" the Bible into the English of his day. How involved King James became in the project is debatable to this day, but the end result was a Bible that people could hear, being preached and read, at church and be read at home. Remember that about one hundred years before, William Tyndale and others were executed ("martyred") because they wanted the average English citizen to have access to the Bible, in English. Now anybody could have a Bible and not risk losing his life for it!
But, again, look at various writings and so on and then make your own opinions. James did some good, and some not-so-good things. Think about it: he was king when the Pilgrims left for the new world (America)!
*EDIT* I put the word "translate", above, in quotation marks because the editors did translate, but in some cases didn't. There are at least two examples where the translators gave Greek words English letters: baptize, and blaspheme. No translation, just an exchange of alphabets. There may be more. And, again, if you look at most King James Bibles, you'll also see the phrase "with the other translations diligently compared and revised". It is still a good Bible, and read it if you're comfortable with it. Otherwise, there are a lot of good and more up-to-date English translations available.
2007-12-22 19:18:39 · answer #2 · answered by Brother Jonathan 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
he didn't remove any portions of the Bible. He wanted the Bible in English, so he was the first to fund the translation of the Bible. They named the English version after him, the King James version. I believe he was from Europe.
2007-12-22 19:04:04 · answer #3 · answered by it's_love 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King James didn't remove anything from the Bible, and neither did his translators. I assume you're talking about the Apocrypha, which wasn't removed from the King James Bible until 1769 (about 150 years after its initial publication).
2007-12-22 19:04:05 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was a king of England I believe. He removed portions of the bible that seemed to support Roman Catholicism. And he created his own version, changing the text ever so slightly, so that it could be more "poetic."
2007-12-22 19:10:58 · answer #5 · answered by Indy Indy Indy!!!! 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
King James authorized the english translation of the Bible and came under a lot of heat for doing so since translations were considered blasphemy from a lot of people in the church.
2007-12-22 19:08:13 · answer #6 · answered by cadisneygirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He didn't write the Bible. He was the first one to mass produce the bible. This is a common misconception. Like people think the Wright Brothers invented the airplane--they only invented MAKING the airplane, the IDEA for the airplane was already there.
2007-12-22 19:09:31 · answer #7 · answered by nobodyhere 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
King James was the king of England, and set his priest and clergy out to rewrite the bible. He wanted it to reflect good on him and not bad. A lot of things got changes so that they could keep their heads.
This would make a good book report for a grad student!
2007-12-22 19:05:39 · answer #8 · answered by John M 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wikipedia King James (of England Authorized Version) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Bible
The best part of the KJB was that it was done by writers of the English language at their height (Shakespeare's time), and so reads more beautifully then any other version.
2007-12-22 19:08:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
King James is a Former King of England. He wrote that version of the Bible to make it more simple to understand for us commonfolk.
2007-12-22 19:04:42 · answer #10 · answered by Unknown Caller 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Jamey was the son of the ridiculous Mary Queen of Scots. What do you expect from the son of the more-pious-than-smart Mary. He felt that he could improve on christianity by inserting his opinion into the bible.
2007-12-22 19:05:48 · answer #11 · answered by Fred 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋