The King James Bible, one of the most printed books ever, transformed the English language, coining everyday phrases like “the root of all evil.”īut what motivated James to authorize the project? 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 bears his name.
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