Today's KJV & 1611 Compared (booklet)

A new 60 page booklet [8.5 x 11 size] that lists over 2,000 differences that affect the sound of words between the 1611 edition of the KJV and the present Oxford KJV edition along with other information about KJV editions is now available at the web address below:

www.lulu.com/content/459951

 

Yes, I have read it. I am its author. For anyone that wants to check the differences between the 1611 edition and today's Oxford KJV edition, it is a valuable reference tool. Pages 3-46 are a list of those differences. In addition, it documents several KJV-only claims about the number of differences and shows them to be inaccurate. Furthermore, it examines the claim that today's KJV editions are the 1769 and shows that today's three Cambridge editions are not every word the same in text as the 1762 Cambridge edition and that today's Oxford edition is not every word the same in text as the 1769 Oxford edition. It also provides over 3 pages of sample differences between today's KJV editions such as the present 1873 Cambridge text that is now printed in Zondervan editions, the present Cambridge Standard Text Edition, the present 2005 New Cambridge Paragraph Bible, the present American Bible Society KJV edition, the present Oxford edition in the Scofield Reference Bible.

 

One purpose of my booklet was to document that Waite's claim of only 421 changes that affect the sound was inaccurate. In listing all the differences, it does list the various verses where from 1 to 5 words were added by later editors and the verses where 1 word in the 1611 was omitted by later editors or printers. It also lists the verses where there is a difference in the number [whether singular or plural] of words. It also lists some of the word differences between the 1762 Cambridge edition and 1769 Oxford edition and today's KJV editions. It also lists over 3 pages of sample differences in present KJV editions, and shows that some of the differences in the 2005 Cambridge edition had already been introduced by Noah Webster in 1833.

I am preparing a second booklet that will show that the changes were not just the correction of printing errors. The KJV translators were responsible for some of the renderings that later editors changed or corrected.

 

I had decided to try Lulu after obtaining reprints of the text of a 1535 Coverdale's and 1540 Great Bible printed by Lulu. If you have the program that they use, there would probably be no problems. I did have some problems in getting my Microsoft word document to convert to their type program. Originally I had the margins of my document already set for a standard size booklet, but when their program converted my pages from 8 1/2 by 11 to standard size it made the type size much smaller and changed my pages. I changed my margins to full size pages and when it converted a few lines still when over to the next page and some tabs in my columns moved. It didn't take long to upload my file to them, and to remove it. I may have adjusted my document and uploaded it 10 times before I thought it was acceptable to be printed. Someone with more computer experience might not have those problems. The quality of the finished product was good.

 

Re: Today's KJV and 1611 Compared

Av1611jim, are you objecting to accurate information about editions of the KJV? What errors did you find in the few pages of the booklet you examined since I would be glad to correct any unintended mistakes? Do you think that the end justifies the mean since you seem to have no problem with the use of inaccurate or false claims made by D. A. Waite and repeated by several other KJV-only authors?

 

The information in this booklet is now also available as a download at the same web site in order to make it easy for anyone who wants to compare the 1611 and today's KJV editions.