The King James Bible - created by seventeenth-century scholars who wanted to make a Bible accessible to all readers of English - is among the most influential books of all time. Both a cornerstone of the Christian faith and one of the supreme achievements of English literature, it has profoundly shaped the English language for over four hundred years and influenced writers from Blake and Milton to Toni Morrison, Seamus Heaney and Cormac McCarthy. It comprises the Old Testament, the Apocrypha and the New Testament, from God's creation of heaven and earth and the fall of man in Genesis, through the life of Jesus Christ, to God's final judgment in Revelation. Definitive and highly readable, this superb edition brings to life one of the finest pieces of English prose.