Surpassing masterpieces by Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as the most widely read work in English literature, the King James Bible is a feat of translation—with more than a billion copies published over the last 400 years. Recently, a notebook containing translation notes by Samuel Ward, one of the translators of the King James Bible, surfaced. Dated between 1604 and 1608 C.E., it is the earliest known draft of the King James Bible. Commissioned by King James I of England in 1604, the King James Bible is both beautiful and scholarly. A team of about four […]
