(New) Series 1 Episode 5 Part Three. Geneva — The Bible that troubled a King.

Regular episode • Season 1 • Episode 5 • (New) Series 1 Episode 5 Part Three. Geneva — The Bible that troubled a King.

The artwork is: The Frontispiece to the King James' Bible, 1611.

The title page text reads: The Holy Bible , containing the Old Testament, and the New.

Newly Translated out of the Original tongues and with the former Translations diligently compared and requested by his Majesties special Commandment.

Appointed to be read in Churches. Imprinted at London by Robert Barker, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. At the bottom is "C. Boel made this in Richmond"

Cornelis Boel c. 1576 – c. 1621, was born at Antwerp, he was a Flemish draughtsman and engraver.

Cornelis Boel engraved the illustrated main title page of the original 1611 King James Bible. It shows the Twelve Apostles at the top. Moses and Aaron flank the central text. In the four corners sit Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, authors of the four gospels, with their symbolic animals. At the top, over the Holy Spirit in a form of a dove, is the Tetragrammaton "YHWH". The Tetragrammaton is the four-letter Hebrew name for God, which translates to "to be," "to exist," or "to cause to become"

The Music is: Psalm 8:1, 3-9 sung by Free Church of Scotland: Psalmody Conference Selections .

Presented by the The Westminster Covenanter. Further details, including lyrics are included in the epilogue. The music plays for the first 30 seconds.

Notes:

Part Three begins at the Hampton Court Conference of 1604, where King James objected to the Geneva Bible’s marginal notes and supported a new English translation. It follows the scholars who produced the Bible published in 1611, showing how their work drew upon earlier translations, including the Geneva Bible itself.

The story then asks whether James really banned the Geneva Bible, traces its continued use in Britain and North America, and considers the lasting influence of the English exiles’ work.