Bishops' Bible

noun

1. an English translation of the Bible made under the direction of Matthew Parker and published in 1568: the recognized translation of the Bible in England until the Authorized (King James) Version of 1611.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Bishops' Bible¹

So called because a number of the scholars who worked on the translation were Anglican bishops

Example Sentences

Rainolds hoped that James would turn his face against the Bishops’ Bible, but his plan backfired when the King insisted that the new translation be based on it and condemned the “partial, untrue, seditious” notes of the Geneva translation.

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In the 16th-century Bishops’ Bible, the previous version authorized by the English Church of England, the verse describes a declaration of King Darius, which states that anyone found disobeying his decrees “of his own goods should a tree be taken, and he thereon be hanged.”

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The Bodleian Library at Oxford owns nearly complete drafts of the Old Testament and the Gospels, in the form of corrected pages of the Bishops’ Bible, a 16th-century translation that the King James teams used as a base text.

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The companies were charged with doing their work as a group, rather than subdividing it by assigning individual books to individual translators, as was the case with the Bishops’ Bible.

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Give the facts concerning the Bishops' Bible—originator, translators, date, characteristics.

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