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The Textual Basis of the King James Version
King James Version was produced using the most complete and accessible manuscripts available to early seventeenth-century translators, rather than the earliest manuscripts now known to exist. While this approach was entirely appropriate given the limitations of the period, subsequent discoveries have significantly altered the evidentiary basis for reconstructing the biblical text. As a result, the KJV remains invaluable for historical, literary, and theological study, but it is not employed as a primary text within modern academic biblical scholarship.
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