Abstract
The Protestant belief that the Bible should be available to all Christians in their native languages occasioned many new translations of the Bible into English, the most famous of which is the Authorised or King James Version, which was published in 1611. The Geneva Bible was published in 1559 (Psalms) and 1560 (complete Bible) for the benefit of Protestants who had escaped from the persecutions of Queen Mary; its marginal commentary is Calvinist in bias. The Church of England attempted to counteract the influence of the Geneva Bible by publishing the Bishops’ Bible (1568), on which the Authorised Version was largely based. The Roman Catholics responded with an English New Testament published at Rheims (1582) and an English Old Testament published at Douai (1609–10). Thomas Sternhold published a versified version of nineteen Psalms in 1547; this was expanded to thirty-seven Psalms in 1549. In 1556 a third edition appeared with seven further Psalms by John Hopkins. In the next hundred years this edition was republished more than three hundred times.
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