Authorised King James Version (KJV)

An English translation of the Christian Bible begun in 1604 and first published in 1611 by the Church of England.

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.

By the first half of the 18th Century, the Authorised Version was effectively unchallenged as the sole English translation in current use in Protestant churches.