The New King James Version was conceived by Arthur Farstad, a conservative Baptist and a former editor at Thomas Nelson Publishers. The project was inaugurated in 1975 with two meetings (Nashville and Chicago) of 68 interested persons, most of them prominent Baptists but also with some conservative Presbyterians. The men who were invited to these meetings prepared the guidelines for the NKJV.
In 1984 the NKJV was slightly revised by a committee of reviewers chaired by
Farstad.
New
King James Version, NKJV (1982)
Thomas Nelson Bible Publishers and the International Trust for Bible
Studies co-sponsored this update of the 1611 KJV
Bible. 119 scholars worked on this project to make the KJV version more
accurate and readable and yet maintain the grace and beauty of the
original KJV test. Generally, the translators used the best available
texts in their work, but rather than assuming the oldest was the most
accurate, they chose to use the texts found most often in the ancient
writings.
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