Authorized Version

John Dean wrote on 04 Nov 2004:
[nq:1]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version?[/nq]
Because somebody (somebodies, actually) actually wrote it?

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Good question.
To your "when" and "why" I add my " who" because I'd like to know who authorized it? The Highest Authority?

[nq:1]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version?[/nq]
I can tell you when the name "Authorized Version" first appeared in print:
1824 according to *Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,* 11th edition.

Raymond S. Wise
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"John Dean"spake thus
[nq:1]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version? John Dean Oxford[/nq]
AFAIK, the "King James" title is more colloquial than "Authorised Version".

Curiously, the Geneva Bible came to be known as the "breeches bible" owing to the verse in Genesis, "and they sewed together fig leaves and made for th

[nq:1]John Dean wrote on 04 Nov 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version?[/nq]
[nq:1]Because somebody (somebodies, actually) actually wrote it?[/nq]
But who were the somebodies, and when and why did they write it?

Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa

[nq:2]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version?[/nq]
[nq:1]I can tell you when the name "Authorized Version" first appeared in print: 1824 according to *Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary,* 11th edition.[/nq]
But the words "printed by authority" appear (still, I think) on the title page of editions produced in the UK. The

Steve Hayes wrote on 04 Nov 2004:
[nq:2]John Dean wrote on 04 Nov 2004: Because somebody (somebodies, actually) actually wrote it?[/nq]
[nq:1]But who were the somebodies, and when and why did they write it?[/nq]
The only such somebody we are sure of is Joseph Smith, the writer of The Book of Mormon. His motives were the same as all other such somebodies: he wanted the money and

[nq:1]John Dean wrote on 04 Nov 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of ... the Authorized Version? Because somebody (somebodies, actually) actually wrote it?[/nq]
[nq:1]But who were the somebodies, and when and why did they write it? Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa[/nq]
A bunch of clever-trousers in the church, commissioned by King James I, di

[nq:2]John Dean wrote on 04 Nov 2004: But who were the somebodies, and when and why did they write it?[/nq]
[nq:1]A bunch of clever-trousers in the church, commissioned by King James I, did it. The first edition (authorised for reading in churches)[/nq]^^
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[nq:1]"John Dean"spake thus[/nq]
[nq:2]Anyone know when and why the King James Version of the Bible started to be called the Authorized Version? John Dean Oxford[/nq]
[nq:1]AFAIK, the "King James" title is more colloquial than "Authorised Version". Curiously, the Geneva Bible came to be known as the "breeches bible" owing to the verse in Genesis, "and they sewed together fig leaves and mad