This is a history of the King James Edition of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) on the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day.

Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the interesting and complex story of how this translation came to be commissioned, of who the translators were, and of the way the translation was accomplished. The storyplot does not end using the printing of this first model, but introduces the next years about Bible: THE STORYPLOT of the King James Edition who edited and interacted with the text. The present text of the Ruler James Edition differs in a large number of little details from the initial release. Campbell traces the textual background from 1611 to the establishment of the modern text by Oxford School Press in 1769.

Attitudes towards the King James Version have got shifted through period and territory, ranging from adulation to deprecation and attracting the attention of a multitude of adherents. It is more widely read in America today than in any other country, and its particular history in there is given due attention.

This volume helps to explain the enduring popularity of the King James Version across the world today.