(Female voice): The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want… (Female voice): For I know that my redeemer liveth and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. KIM LAWTON, correspondent: The ...

In Begat, David Crystal sets out to prove that the King James Bible has contributed more to the English language than any other literary source. If you've ever "fought the good fight" or chuckled at ...

Precisely 451 years after the June 19, 1566, birth of King James I of England, one achievement of his reign still stands above the rest: the 1611 English translation of the Old and New Testaments that ...

LONDON - Every Sunday, the majestic cadences of the King James Bible resound in Her Majesty's Chapel Royal in London, in scattered parish churches in Britain and in countless chapels, halls and ...

Its cadence is found in the speeches of Abraham Lincoln and the lyrics of Paul Simon. Renowned narrator Alexander Scourby and country music legend Johnny Cash have recorded spoken versions of the text ...

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

NEW YORK — At the Museum of Biblical Art in Manhattan, a portrait of King James I, who ascended to the English throne in 1603, looks out on display cases of rare Bibles. In 1604, King James authorized ...

A page of the original King James Bible Garry Wilmore - Flickr/Creative Commons When an archive yields an unexpected discovery, it's usually cause for celebration. But when that discovery involves the ...

The King James Bible, the most famous version of the world’s most influential book, was published on this day in history, May 2, 1611. "The King James, or Authorized, Version of the Bible remains the ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Pastoral LifeThe circuit-riding Baptist minister Rome Wager breaks a horse on ranch land he leases at the southern end ...