The cipher designer who began it in 1994, the program he says drafted it from the American Standard in fifteen minutes, why nobody owns it, and a Greek text that neither the King James nor the American Standard was made from.
The Americans who revised the Bible with the English and were refused a vote, the fourteen years they agreed to wait, why their Bible says Jehovah, and the page a North Carolina preacher burned from its successor.
The manuscripts Erasmus actually had at Basel, the last verses of Revelation he wrote himself out of Latin, the promise about 1 John he never made, and why the Received Text sold today was made backward out of an English Bible.
The forged letter that named it, the seventy-two translators who were never in separate cells, the corrections that began before Christianity, and why the critical edition is still unfinished after a hundred and eighteen years.
The exiles who made it, the page design every English Bible copied afterwards, the notes King James complained of, the ban that never existed, and why the 1599 edition sold today is not the 1599 edition.
The scribes of Tiberias who counted every letter of the Bible, the vowel points that started a war among Protestants, the crown of Aleppo and its missing two fifths, and why your Old Testament rests on a manuscript written at Cairo in 1008.
The alias he took his degrees under, the press stopped mid-run at Cologne, the six words he fought Thomas More over, the friend who betrayed him at Antwerp, and how much of the King James is really his.
Why James I ordered it in 1604, the fifty-four men who made it, what it took from Tyndale, and why the King James you own is the 1769 text, not 1611.