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Most Biblical scholars will claim that Moses was the first person to write portions of Scripture while John, the disciple of Jesus, was the last. That said, the King James Bible of 1611 remains the most popular translation in history, emerging at a high point in the English Renaissance, compiled by six groups, comprised of some 54 translators, of which we know very little about.

The revised translation of the Bible was undertaken as a national work, carried out under the personal supervision of the King, but every record of the proceedings has disappeared. The British Museum does not contain any manuscript connected with the proceedings of the translators. Who edited the final translated manuscript of the King James Authorized Version of the Bible?

On January 24, 2013, the traveling exhibition Manifold Greatness: 

The Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible opened at the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University. 

The keynote talk for the opening: "What Kind of a Text is the King James Bible?Manuscripts, Translation, and the Legacy of the KJV"
 was presented by Dr. Bart Ehrman, James A. Grey
 Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill and New York Times bestselling author.

Open Yale Courses 

https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152

This course provides a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements in historical context, concentrating on the New Testament. 

Although theological themes will occupy much of our attention, the course does not attempt a theological appropriation of the New Testament as scripture. 

Rather, the importance of the New Testament and other early Christian documents as ancient literature and as sources for historical study will be emphasized. A central organizing theme of the course will focus on the differences within early Christianity (-ies).

an in-depth examination of how our modern Bible was created and written and how it differs from the ancient texts of thousands of years ago. You will learn how the Bible has been "changed" or "altered" over time and what these changes mean and why they were made - everything from Goliath's Height to Jesus's sayings.



Citations: Reddish, Mitchell (2011). An Introduction to The Gospels. Abingdon Press. ISBN 978-1426750083. Burkett, Delbert (2002). An introduction to the New Testament and the origins of Christianity. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00720-7 Duling, Dennis C. (2010). "The Gospel of Matthew". In Aune, David E. (ed.). The Blackwell Companion to the New Testament. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-4051-0825-6. Hays, J. Daniel (December 2005). "Reconsidering the Height of Goliath" (Portable Document File). Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society. 48 (4): 701–2. Ehrman, Bart D. Misquoting Jesus: the Story behind Who Changed the Bible and Why. New York: Harper, 2005. Ehrman, Bart D. Whose Word Is It?: the Story behind Who Changed the New Testament and Why. London: Continuum, 2008. Epp, Eldon Jay. Junia: the First Woman Apostle. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005. Ben Witherington, “The Anti-Feminist Tendencies of the ‘Western’ Text of Acts,” Journal of Biblical Literature 103 (1984): 82–84. Ehrman, Bart D. “The Historical Jesus.” (Course No. 643) thegreatcoursesplus.com. Accessed April 9, 2020. https://www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/t.... Harris, William V. Ancient Literacy, 1991. Sanders, E (1995). The Historical Figure of Jesus. Penguin UK.