King James Bible (Illustrated) - ebook

With 100 illustrations by Gustave Dore, 9 by Michelangelo, 8 by Raphael, 4 by Leonardo da Vinci, 3 by Titian, 2 by Artemisia Lomi, 2 by Agnese Dolci, and one each by Jacopo Bellini, Gabriel Max, Questin Massys, Fra Angelica, Schongauer, Correggio, Durer, Bodenhausen, Vivarini, Murillo, Albert Keller, Elisabetta Sirani, and Mary Tibaldi Sublegras. The tables of contents link to every chapter of every book. According to Wikipedia: "The Authorized King James Version is an English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and first published in 1611 by the Church of England. The Great Bible was the first "authorized version" issued by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII. In January 1604, King James I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England. The king gave the translators instructions designed to guarantee that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its beliefs about an ordained clergy. The translation was by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the Church of England. In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from the Textus Receptus (Received Text) series of the Greek texts. The Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text, while the Apocrypha were translated from the Greek Septuagint (LXX), except for 2 Esdras, which was translated from the Latin Vulgate."