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Article: Let It Go Among Our People: An Illustrated History of the English Bible from John Wyclif to the King James Version
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- Anglican and Episcopal History
- Article date:
- March 1, 2006
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DAVID PRICE AND CHARLES C. RYRIE. Let It Go Among Our People: An Illustrated History of the English Bible from John Wyclif to the King James Version. Cambridge, England: Lutterworth Press, 2004. Pp. 160, preface, illustrations, bibliography, appendices, index. $60.00.
January 2004 marked the 400th anniversary of the Hampton Court Conference to produce a new Bible. It was here James I, Puritan leaders, and the English bishops met and began the process of developing a new translation of the Bible that would culminate seven years later in the publication of the King James or Authorized Bible. Though much admired and used, few people apart from scholars and a few clerics have any idea of the ...