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In the Beginning: the Creation of the King James Bible

Wed 02 Nov 2011

Temple Church

Temple

London

EC4Y 7BB


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T: 020 7427 5641

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6.45pm
Tickets: £15; concs £10

The most famous book in the English language, The King James Bible, is brought to life at Temle Church. In 1604 King James VI of Scotland had just arrived in England and was starting to flex his constitutional muscles; fears of Roman Catholic Europe were fanned into flame by the Gunpowder Plot in 1605; the Puritans were agitating for a Calvinist polity. In these turbulent waters the six teams of scholars worked on the translation of Christendom’s most vital – and in the “wrong” hands most dangerous – text.