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Were these 2 manuscripts the same verses or were they different? For example: The first one is Isaiah, Ezra, Nehemiah. The older one they found is Genesis, Exodus & Leviticus.
Basically I am referring to that which was available for the 1611 version and then more manuscripts that were determined to be older manuscripts that we discovered after 1611. As mentioned in another comment my use of two sets was meant to simplify, not confuse, but it did not work :-)
I was wanting to know if the older version that they've found more recently contain more books? Or is it the exact same books as the ones used in the 1611 version & just the wording is different?
Was wondering myself and did a search. Here's some interesting stuff I found.
http://newlife.id.au/church-history/7-things-about-the-king-james-b...
Koine (“common”) Greek is the original language of the New Testament. Koine Greek had been a dead language for over a thousand years when the KJV was published for the first time in 1611. The translators of the KJV didn’t even know what Koine Greek was. Some people believed that the Greek language of the NT was a unique, Spirit-inspired dialect. It was not until the late 1800s and during the 1900s, when tens of thousands of papyri documents were discovered – many written in Koine, that we could begin to understand the language more fully. Unlike the translators of the KJV, modern translators of the New Testament are scholars of Koine Greek.
As well as relying on previous English translations, the 1611 edition of the KJV relied on a critically edited Greek text that was “for the most part based on about half a dozen very late manuscripts (none earlier than the 12th century AD).” These late manuscripts include editions of the Greek New Testament by Erasmus[8], as well as Robert Estienne’s (a.k.a. ‘Stephanus’) edition (1550) and Theodore Beza’s edition (1598). Unfortunately, one of the manuscripts Estienne and Beza used for their Greek editions contained a few “corrections” that downplayed the importance of women in the church.
I personally think it's quite the naive statement when people claim to read the KJV only because it's the true translation.
Interesting about the RSV. Thanks for this info.
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