>>It's clear he did not even know what the Bible was.<<
Sigh. Wrong again. Atheists are usually wrong.
"The
King James Version of the Bible is also called the Authorized Version, because the translation was authorized by King James I of England. The preface of the KJV dedicates the work “To the most High and Mighty Prince James, by the grace of God, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, &c.” Prior to ruling England, James was King James VI of Scotland. It was not until 1603, upon the death of Queen Elizabeth I, that the kingdoms of Scotland and England were united and James became King James I of England, the first of the Stuart line.
Mary Queen of Scots gave birth to her son James in 1566 in Scotland. In June 1567 the Protestant lords rebelled against their queen. They arrested and imprisoned Mary in Loch Leven Castle, where she was forced to abdicate the throne of Scotland. James was thus only a year old when he became James VI, King of Scotland, in 1567. In spite of his mother’s Catholic faith, James was brought up in the Protestant religion. He was educated by men who had empathy for the Presbyterian Church."
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"The Scottish Reformation was completed before the English Reformation. The Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians wanted a new Bible that would get as far away as possible from the structure of the
Bishops’ Bible of the Anglican Church, and the idea of a new translation of the Bible was first proposed at a religious conference in Aberdour, Fife. King James was in favor of a new translation. He didn’t care for
Tyndale’s translation of
Matthew 16:18, which said Christ would build His “congregation” on Peter (James much preferred “church” from
ekklesia). The only other alternative at the time was the 1560s Geneva Bible, but King James objected to a “treasonable annotation” on
Matthew 2:20 that suggested that kings are tyrants.
In 1604 King James convened the Hampton Court Conference and authorized the start of a new translation of the Bible into English. The objective was to have one standard version of the Bible to be used across all English-speaking parishes. The task of translation was undertaken by 47 scholars, taken from a cross-section of Jacobean England. Many of them were highly skilled in ancient languages. The King James Authorized Version of the Bible was finished in 1611, just 85 years after the first translation of the New Testament into English appeared (Tyndale, 1526)."
Who was the King James that the King James Version of the Bible is named after?
What's important is the DSS back up the King James version.
"Textual criticism
The importance of the scrolls soon became apparent, as they were recognized to be the oldest extant manuscripts of Jewish texts; the Great Isaiah scroll, which contains the entire
book of Isaiah, is at least 1,000 years older than any previously known transcript.
This age was especially significant when it was revealed that they were almost identical to the later manuscripts. Once confirmed, through
Carbon-14 dating in addition to paleographic and scribal dating, this fact silenced a lot of criticism aimed at discrediting the Biblical texts as adapted or adjusted to fit into Christianity's
theology. Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, all known copies of Biblical texts were written long after the time of
Christ. Apart from a few scribal errors, however, the texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls are identical to later corresponding manuscripts.
In addition to copies of the
Jewish scriptures, the numerous scrolls found in the area of the original seven also include commentaries on the text, as well as regulations and rules for things such as daily living and war. Though most of the scrolls are written in
Hebrew, a few are in
Aramaic or
Greek. From studying the text and excavating the nearby ruins of Qumran, scholars have determined that the scrolls most likely belonged to a group of Essenes, a strict
Jewish sect who enforced a strict lifestyle and were believed to be Messianic in thinking. This group was described by the
Jewish historian
Josephus in the first century AD.
For decades, the content of the scrolls was disclosed little by little to the general public, as a team of scholars tackled the tedious work of reconstructing, studying, and translating the scrolls. A new team was eventually formed, as most of the original team members were retiring. Some criticism was expressed at the slow rate at which the scrolls were published, and many tried to gain access to them; it wasn't until 1991, and after the disclosure of unauthorized copies of a number of the scrolls, that a resolution was passed permitting all "qualified scholars" access to transcripts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, or any ancient manuscript."
Dead Sea scrolls - CreationWiki, the encyclopedia of creation science
