American King James Version
Encyclopedia
The American King James Version is a new English
edition of the Holy Bible by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite, based on the King James Version. It is a simple word for word update from the King James English
. Care has been taken to change nothing doctrinally
, but to simply update the spelling and vocabulary. The grammar has not been changed to avoid altering the doctrine.
Michael Engelbrite has put the American King James version of the Bible into the public domain
on November 8, 1999. In a note distributed with the translation, he stated, “You may use it in any manner you wish: copy it, sell it, modify it, etc. You can't copyright it or prevent others from using it. A special thanks to Tye Rausch and Eve Engelbrite who helped tremendously on this project. You can't claim that you created it, because you didn't.” http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=AKJV
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
edition of the Holy Bible by Michael Peter (Stone) Engelbrite, based on the King James Version. It is a simple word for word update from the King James English
Early Modern English
Early Modern English is the stage of the English language used from about the end of the Middle English period to 1650. Thus, the first edition of the King James Bible and the works of William Shakespeare both belong to the late phase of Early Modern English...
. Care has been taken to change nothing doctrinally
Doctrine
Doctrine is a codification of beliefs or a body of teachings or instructions, taught principles or positions, as the body of teachings in a branch of knowledge or belief system...
, but to simply update the spelling and vocabulary. The grammar has not been changed to avoid altering the doctrine.
Michael Engelbrite has put the American King James version of the Bible into the public domain
Public domain
Works are in the public domain if the intellectual property rights have expired, if the intellectual property rights are forfeited, or if they are not covered by intellectual property rights at all...
on November 8, 1999. In a note distributed with the translation, he stated, “You may use it in any manner you wish: copy it, sell it, modify it, etc. You can't copyright it or prevent others from using it. A special thanks to Tye Rausch and Eve Engelbrite who helped tremendously on this project. You can't claim that you created it, because you didn't.” http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModInfo.jsp?modName=AKJV
External links
- The Sword Project — with reader software and other translations.
- OnLine Bible — Translation, reader software.
- AKJV on StudyBible.info
- Direct links to the text file:
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.txt (4.1 megs)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.bz2 (less than a meg - but Windows users would have to go get a [bzip2]-deflating program)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.zip (1.3 megs)
- http://panoptic.com/rking/doc/akjv.gz (1.3 megs)