THE LIBRARY / BISHOPS
Bishops' Bible
- Language
- English
- First published
- 1568
- Translators / editors
- Matthew Parker and a committee of Church of England bishops and scholars
66 books available in this edition.
About this translation
First published in 1568, the Bishops' Bible was prepared under the direction of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. Its translators included bishops and other scholars of the Church of England.
It revised the Great Bible for public worship while offering an alternative to the Geneva Bible. Different translators worked on different portions, so its style is not uniform throughout.
The Bishops' Bible was an important predecessor of the King James Version, whose translators were instructed to use it as their starting text while consulting other sources.