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The King James Bible Had 80 Books
The King James Bible is the fixed point: sixty-six books, unchanged since 1611. Except the 1611 edition had eighty. Between Malachi and Matthew, the original KJV carried fourteen books, Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, the Maccabees, cross-referenced by the translators and appointed for reading in church, and in 1615 the Archbishop of Canterbury threatened printers with a year in prison for leaving them out. Two centuries later, a Bible society funding dispute known as the Apocrypha Controversy ended with a committee vote, and the most famous Bible in history quietly lost an inch. This episode…
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