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@St. SteVen --- you'll have to spin out another thread from this spun out thread so you can have a discussion on where the resources have come from, in the resource library.
You have the Hebrew texts and the Greek texts-- translated into Latin and then into German (Martin Luther's work) and finally into English (King Henry, Geneva and King James versions).
Yes, the Geneva Bible preceded the King James version by about 50 years, but before the Geneva Bible, there was "the Great Bible" -- which has been all but forgotten. Mary- was Queen of England. This is the Queen that Protestants gave the moniker-- Bloody Mary for her persecution of them. Many of theological scholars fled from her-- to Geneva, Switzerland, where --guess who??? Jean Calvin-- the French theologian had established himself as opposed to the Catholic teachings. This group of scholars translated the Geneva Bible from the original Hebrew and Greek directly (like Tyndale had started to do, prior to being thrown in prison and then executed for it). This Geneva Bible, though it came after the King Henry-- it was preferred by the Reformers-- well? -because it was spicier. It used more forceful language-- more "vigorous." And so this was the Bible that the Puritans -who became Pilgrims took with them on the Mayflower-- as they fled from the tyranny of the Catholic Church.
Incidentally-- Mary I-- Bloody Mary was defending the church from the English Reformation. You see it was her Father's work-- having the Bible translated into English that started all the trouble. As soon as people could read this resource for themselves with their own eyes, and not have to take the Church's word for it..... Reformers stood up and opposed things they found out were simply wrong teachings.
Who was Queen Mary's father? It was King Henry VIII.
Just as the King James version bears the name of it's benefactor, so too the Great Bible-- it was the authorized King Henry version.