![]() The other translations available were the Tyndale version and the Geneva Bible. Puritans and Scottish Presbyterians wanted a new Bible that would not carry the same structure of the Bishops' Bible and the Anglican Church. ![]() The Scottish Reformation was finished before the English Reformation. The idea of researching and writing a new translation of the Bible was broached at a religious conference in Aberdour, Fife. James, born a Catholic but raised a Protestant, ascended to the Scottish throne in 1567 at the age of one when his mother, Mary Queen of Scots, was imprisoned and forced to abdicate. When Queen Elizabeth I died in 1603, Scotland and England united under King James VI of Scotland who then became King James I of England, the first of the Stuart line. Who was the King James of the King James Version of the Bible?
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