TEXT HISTORY
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WORLD HISTORY
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1601
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Queen Elizabeth I dies and the throne passes to her cousin King James VI of Scotland. As a result, the crowns of Scotland and England are united.
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1602
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Shakespeare publishes Hamlet.
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1604
Work is begun on the King James Bible (see 1611). |
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1609
The Douai-Rheims Bible is published as a text translated from the Latin Vulgate, rather than the original Greek and Hebrew. |
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1610
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The Baptist denomination first appears in England as a third-generation Reformation group.
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1611
The King James Bible is completed. |
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Often referred to as AV1611 (Authorized Version from 1611), this text has easily superceded all those which came before and has been the source of tremendous controversy amidst those that translated after.
The project for the AV1611 involved six companies of translators divided into three schools of text. Following is a brief chart of divided projects assigned:
Location
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First Westminster Company
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First Cambridge Company
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First Oxford Company
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Assigned Text
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Genesis to II Kings
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I Chronicles to the Song of Songs
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Isaiah to Malachi
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Members
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Lancelot Andrewes (Head)
William Bedwell
Richard Clark
Geoffrey King
John Layfield
John Overall
Hadrian a Saravia
Richard Thompson
Robert Tighe
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Edward Lively (Head)
Roger Andrews
Andrew Bing
Laurence Chadderton
Thomas Harrison
John Richardson
Robert Spalding
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John Harding (Head)
Richard Brett
Richard Fairclough
Thomas Holland
Richard Kilby
John Reynolds
Miles Smith
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Location
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Second Westminster Company
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Second Cambridge Company
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Second Oxford Company
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Assigned Text
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The New Testament Letters
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The Apocryphal Books
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The Gospels, Acts, and Revelation
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Members
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William Barlow (Head)
William Dakins
Roger Fenton
Ralph Hutchinson
Michael Rabbet
Thomas Sanderson
John Spencer
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John Duport (Head)
John Boys
William Branthwaite
Andrew Downes
Jeremiah Radcliffe
Robert Ward
Samuel Ward
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Thomas Ravid (Head)
George Abbot
John Aglionby
Richard Eedes
John Harmer
James Montague
John Perin
Ralph Ravens
Sir Henry Savile
Giles Thomson
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In an opening footnote on the AV1611, Miles Smith (First Oxford Company) argued a final point against the standard Latin Vulgate which states, "Now what can be more available thereto, than to deliver God's book unto God's people in a tongue which they understand?" Hence the reason that it was so imperative that they collectively develop an appropriate, honorable, and scholarly translation of the most available texts for the English language. What remains in heated debate is whether the language of 1611 has evolved so far as to need a more appropriate translation (based from the same available texts of that time) or if modern students of Scripture should consider the King James Bible to hold our current language at its best moment (thus suggesting that language has devolved).
1620
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Pilgrim fathers arrive at Cape Cod on the Mayflower.
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1624
Bonaventura Elzevir publishes his first edition of the Greek New Testament. |
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1625
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The death of King James I.
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1629
The Old Testament Apocrypha is removed by protestants. |
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1633
Bonaventura Elzevir publishes his second edition of the Greek New Testament. |
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1641
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James Ussher loses his home during the Irish uprising and gets taken in by the king. His allegiance to the king would eventually give him credibility as an authoritative writer of Bibilical measure.
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1643
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Isaac Newton is born in England.
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1650
James Ussher's Annals of World History first appeared. Ussher became the first to mathematically document that the earth was created at nightfall on October 23, 4004 BC. |
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1656
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The death of Archbishop James Ussher.
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On his deathbed, his final words were "O Lord forgive me, especially my sins of omission." He was buried in the chapel of St. Erasmus in Westminster Abby.
1675
The King James Bible is published by Cambridge University Press. |
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1678
John Bunyan's allegorical work of Pilgrim's Progress is published. |
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1687
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Isaac Newton publishes his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Here he introduces the foundational concepts of gravity, the law of motion, and the speed of sound.
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1692
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The Salem witch trials commence in Massachusetts.
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