Bishops' Bible
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Bishops' Bible
So called because a number of the scholars who worked on the translation were Anglican bishops
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The Bodleian has supplied the only surviving annotated copy of the earlier Bishops’ Bible, whose translation was used as a foundation for the King James.
From New York Times • Sep. 29, 2011
The Bishops' Bible was the default text, there were to be no marginal notes, and the translators were instructed to defer to "the ancient fathers", "the analogy of the faith" and the "old ecclesiastical words".
From The Guardian • Feb. 19, 2011
Its 47 translators based their work upon the Bishops' Bible.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Bishops' Bible, published in 1568 with a complimentary portrait of Queen Elizabeth and her favorite, Robert Dudley, represented a somewhat frantically covetous attempt by the British Clergy to counteract the popularity of this version.
From Time Magazine Archive
Many revisions followed: the Great Bible of 1539, the Geneva Bible of 1560 and the Bishops' Bible of 1568.
From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved
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