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Has the King James Version changed over the years and what questions does this raise?
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Oh yes! The King James Version has made a significant change in celebrating the 400th year of the KJV.
No one today reads the King James Version in its original form.
The 1613 edition has over 300 differences from the 1611 version.
In the eighteenth century, over 30,0000 marginal references were added.
Between 1851-56 over 24,000 variations in readings were found in six different editions of the King James Version. These changes obviously had not been authorized by King James, who was by then long dead and gone.
And now, unbeknownst to many people, they have produced the "Divine Name" King James Version; which restores God's personal name by which he has identified himself to his human family. They have restored it in approx 7,000 places.
Some questions it raises: -- If people clamored all these years that they don't want the King James Version changed, then why do they use an edition that has already been changed, instead of using a copy of the 1611 edition? -- Since they finally corrected one significant wrong; does this mean that the entire translation is now finally correct; or are there other mistakes that need still to be corrected?
Another Answer:
Anything 'created' by human beings is subject to errors and correction. Just like the 'theory of Evolution', medicine, astronomy, etc. have been modified/changed over the recent century or so, so too the King James Version (KJV) of Scripture, long the standard in the English-speaking world. This version was first put together in 1611 after a 7 year effort by 54 scholars. Primarily, it was translated from the Hebrew Masoretic text and the Greek Received Text (Greek Textus Receptus).
Though the KJV had a few serious errors like using the term 'Easter' instead of 'Passover' for the Greek word 'pascha' in Acts 12:4, the translators did strive to be carefully faithful to the texts available to them at that time.
As with many older text, the primary problem for modern readers is the use of terms no longer commonly used by most today - like 'thee or thou' for example. Some English words have actually changed in their original meaning like in 2 Thessalonians 2:7 word 'let' which for the KJV meant to 'prevent or hinder' just the opposite of what it means today - except in legal usage.
In 1982, scholars came together to attempt to update the KJV to modern and easier reading. They produced the New King James Version which retains much of the beauty and faithfulness to the text of the original KJV. It is quickly becoming the most common version in use today.
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