Reconstructing the Process

How did the King James Bible translators go about their challenging task in the years from 1604, when King James agreed to a new English Bible, to 1611, when the King James Bible was first printed? What do we know about the day-to-day work of translation, and what special insights does it offer us into the translators’ world?

Curators of the Manifold Greatness exhibitions at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Bodleian Library at Oxford discuss these and other questions in Reconstructing the Process, one of several new videos created for this website.

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http://www.manifoldgreatness.org/index.php/making/reconstructing-the-process/