Scholar finds oldest KJV draft
For about a month after he returned from England last year, a New Jersey university professor did not realize what a treasure he had found in a rare books library abroad.
At Cambridge University, Jeffrey A. Miller, an assistant professor of English at Montclair State University, had acquainted himself with some of the 70 pages of a notebook that had belonged to Samuel Ward, a 17th-century biblical scholar. But it wasn’t until Miller returned home, and made a more thorough study of photographs he had taken of its pages, that he understood how stunning a discovery he had made.
The notebook held draft portions of the King James Version of the Bible, which was published in 1611 and named for the newly ascended King James I.
