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Working documents of the translators of the King James Bible

The Bishop’s Bible with notes of the KJV translator teams

A very valuable source for the translation work and for discussions about why things have been done they way have have by the translators, is their very own documentation of their working process.

In this section you find the resources of this working documents that are available online:

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Here is a copy of this document (respecting the creative commons CC BY-NC 4.0 DEED license):

This is actually a print of the Bishop’s Bible with the annotations of the changes of four of the six translator teams.

Notes from the Bodleain Library concerning this publication:

“At the beginning of the translation process, forty unbound copies of the 1602 edition of the Bishops’ Bible were distributed to the translators to serve as the basis for their translation. The only surviving sheets from these Bibles are bound together in this copy described at the time of its acquisition by the Bodleian as ‘a large Bible wherein is written downe all the Alterations of the last Translacion’. The annotations appear in parts of the Old and New Testaments and reflect the work-in-progress of four of the six translating companies.”

An amazing insight to the actual work of the King James Bible translators.

The Ward’s translation manuscript

In 2015 an amazing discovery un the library of Cambridge University uncovered a manuscript of the translators work of one of the KJV translators, Samuel Ward.

It demonstrates, that the translator teams sometimes ordered translation works to distinct team members, which then prepared them on their own, before returning them to the overall process of the KJV translation.

Article with interview of the man that discovered the draft in 2015:https://www.neh.gov/article/first-draft-king-james-bible

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Old German New Testament

German Tepl Bible from 1350/1400 A.D.

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