Bible en français

In French NKJV (Translation King James Version - KJV)

The Bible is a collection of texts considered sacred by Judaism and Christianity. The different religious groups may include different books in their guns in a different order. The texts of the books themselves are not always identical from one religious group to another.

King James, born 3 October 1810 in Geneva (Plainpalais) and died 18 June 1885 in the same city, is a Swiss pastor and theologian who, at the request of the Company of Pastors of Geneva, translated the Bible French from the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

King James was a moderate liberal Protestant theologian (as opposed to other theologians called "orthodox" who did not want to question the ancestral heritage of Protestantism). His translation of the Bible was so unpopular with "Orthodox" Protestants. However Segond always refused to touch his work while stipulating that could revise his translation after his death. Despite these attacks, the translation of King James quickly touched a wide audience within Protestantism: three hundred thousand copies will be produced between 1880 and 1910.

The first publication of his translation of the Old Testament is dated 1874 and the New Testament of 1880. Both will be published in one volume for the first time in Oxford in 1880. This translation is usually called the KJV Bible. It will become the reference for a century in the French Protestantism. Beyond Protestantism, the translation of the KJV Bible has become a major reference of the biblical text in the Francophone world.