A five-month exhibition about the creation of the King James Bible is on display at Cambridge University’s library.
Academics said the exhibition – Great And Manifold Blessings: The Making Of The King James Bible – traces the history of Bible translation and examines the reception the King James version was given.
“It was drawn together and harmonised by a painstaking process of comparison and revision by divinity scholars at Cambridge, Oxford and Westminster,” said a university spokesman.
“Puritans disliked it, scholars took delight in pointing out its errors, and the public had a prior loyalty to the Geneva version of 50 years earlier.”
He said the exhibition would feature a “world-class display of biblical treasures” and look at source material that Cambridge translators used to begin the “masterwork” in the early 17th century.