This year is the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible (published in 1611).  I will be presenting a paper at a Union University/Ryan Center for Biblical Studies conference this coming fall: KJV 400 Legacy and Impact.  This has given me a good excuse to buy and begin to read David Daniel's The Bible in English (Yale, 2003).  Thus far it is absolutely wonderful.  A few years ago I read his William Tyndale biography, and I absolutely loved it.  The Bible in English is 700+ pages, plus appendices/bibliography/indices.  If you are looking for a shorter, but nonetheless wonderful book on the King James Bible, and its significance, you might look at Leland Ryken's The Legacy of the King James Bible: Celebrating 400 Years of the Most Influential English Translation (Crossway, 2011).

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