People's Bible, The: The Remarkable History of the King James Version

By (author): Derek Wilson. This history traces how the Bible came to be translated into English, from the underground vernacular translations of John Wycliffe and William Tyndale (who was executed for his work) through the printing-press revolution of the Reformation, culminating in King James I's 1604 Hampton Court commission. Forty-seven scholars working in six committees across Oxford, Cambridge, and Westminster produced the Authorized Version over three years, publishing it in 1611 with the aim of putting scripture into the hands of ordinary people. Wilson also traces the KJV's later revisions and its enduring literary and doctrinal influence.