Tyndale on Understanding the Scriptures

Here's a great quote from the martyred William Tyndale, found in a brief history of the Bible in English, a history marked by the desire to have a Bible in the common language of the people:

"William Tyndale fought and died for the right to print the Bible in the common, spoken, modern English tongue of his day… as he boldly told one official who criticized his efforts, 'If God spare my life, I will see to it that the boy who drives the plowshare knows more of the scripture than you, Sir!'"

Given the reading ability of today's schoolchildren, the KJV, however....

The Webster Bible

Noah Webster produced his own revision of the KJV in 1833. And for interesting reasons (This site also contains a list of what he changed, from his own Introduction).

Church History and the Revised Version

This might shed some light on the origin of the knee-jerk reaction to any other (non-KJV) version, along with contributing to a better understanding of the last 120 years of church history with regard to the Bible.
(JSTOR permission may be required)

Bob Jones on KJVO

Fascinating. Never thought I would be referring people to Bob Jones on this topic. Note the other links--to R. A. Torrey, for example, and Spurgeon.