Cambridge celebrates 400 years of the King James Bible

Cambridge celebrates 400 years of the King James Bible

Address
The University Church of St Mary the Great
St Mary's Passage
Cambridge
CB2 3PQ

Details
Start Date/Time 27 Apr 2011 - 9:30am
End Date/Time 27 Apr 2011 - 7:00pm
Email KJB400@divinity.cam.ac.uk

Programme for the day

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9.30 Welcome
 
9.35 Professor Pauline Croft (Royal Holloway)
King James and his Bible: the historical context
 
10.35 Break
 
11.00 Professor William Horbury (Cambridge)
The Cambridge Contribution
 
12.00 Professor Brian Cummings (Sussex)
Words and the Word: How the Bible became literature
 
1.00 Lunch (attendees make their own lunch arrangements)
 
2.30 Dr Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
The ‘Authorizing’ of the KJB: Two Hundred Years of Success and Failure
 
3.30 Professor Mark Noll (Notre Dame)
 
4.30 Break
 
5.00 The Archbishop of Canterbury
 
6.15 Evensong