BibleKingJamesVersionwithApocrypha
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TheKingJamesVersion(KJV),commonlyknownastheAuthorizedVersion(AV)orKingJamesBible(KJB),isanEnglishtranslationoftheChristianBiblefortheChurchofEnglandbegunin1604andcompletedin1611.FirstprintedbytheKing'sPrinterRobertBarker,thiswasthethirdtranslationintoEnglishtobeapprovedbytheEnglishChurchauthorities.
JamesgavethetranslatorsinstructionsintendedtoguaranteethatthenewversionwouldconformtotheecclesiologyandreflecttheepiscopalstructureoftheChurchofEnglandanditsbeliefinanordainedclergy.Thetranslationwasdoneby47scholars,allofwhomweremembersoftheChurchofEngland.Incommonwithmostothertranslationsoftheperiod,theNewTestamentwastranslatedfromGreek,theOldTestamentwastranslatedfromHebrewtext,whiletheApocryphaweretranslatedfromtheGreekandLatin.
TheBiblicalapocrypha(fromtheGreekwordἀπόκρυφος,apókruphos,meaning"hidden")denotesthecollectionofancientbooksfound,insomeeditionsoftheBible,inaseparatesectionbetweentheOldandNewTestamentsorasanappendixaftertheNewTestament.Althoughthetermapocryphahadbeeninusesincethe5thcentury,itwasinLuther'sBibleof1534thattheApocryphawasfirstpublishedasaseparateintertestamentalsection.Lutherwasmakingapolemicalpointaboutthecanonicityofthesebooks.Asanauthorityforthisdivision,hecitedSt.Jerome,whointheearly5thcenturydistinguishedtheHebrewandGreekOldTestaments,statingthatbooksnotfoundintheHebrewwerenotreceivedascanonical.Althoughhisstatementwascontroversialinhisday,JeromewaslatertitledaDoctoroftheChurchandhisauthoritywasalsocitedintheAnglicanstatementin1571oftheThirty-NineArticles.
KingJamesVersion
TheEnglish-languageKingJamesVersion(KJV)of1611followedtheleadoftheLutherBibleinusinganinter-testamentalsectionlabelled"BookscalledApocrypha",orjust"Apocrypha"attherunningpageheader.TheKJVfollowedtheGenevaBibleof1560almostexactly(variationsaremarkedbelow).Thesectioncontainsthefollowing:
-1Esdras(Vulgate3Esdras)
-2Esdras(Vulgate4Esdras)
-Tobit
-Judith("Judeth"inGeneva)
-RestofEsther(VulgateEsther10:4-16:24)
-Wisdom
-Ecclesiasticus(alsoknownasSirach)
-BaruchandtheEpistleofJeremy("Jeremiah"inGeneva)(allpartofVulgateBaruch)
-SongoftheThreeChildren(VulgateDaniel3:24-90)
-StoryofSusanna(VulgateDaniel13)
-TheIdolBelandtheDragon(VulgateDaniel14)
-PrayerofManasses(follows2ChroniclesinGeneva)
-1Maccabees
-2Maccabees
IncludedinthislistarethosebooksoftheClementineVulgatethatwerenotinLuther'scanon.Thesearethebooksmostfrequentlyreferredtobythecasualappellation"theApocrypha".ThesesamebooksarealsolistedinArticleVIoftheThirty-NineArticlesoftheChurchofEngland.DespitebeingplacedintheApocrypha,inthetableoflessonsatthefrontofsomeprintingsoftheKingJamesBible,thesebooksareincludedundertheOldTestament.