Lord Gave the Word: Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the King James Version (8) The Golden Age of the English Bible (3) The Bishop’s Bible

Introduction             The Bishops’ Bible, by the very fact of its existence as well as in the manner of its translations, testifies to the deep division within the Church of England in the time after the death of  Bloody Mary and the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I. It was a challenge to the popular supremacy gained by the Geneva Bible after its importation from the continent to England in 1560. Some who should know better would like to assure us that the Bishops’ Bible and the Geneva...