Derek Wilson

Derek Wilson, an author who specializes in history, wrote The People’s Bible: The Remarkable History of the King James Version. He is a frequent speaker and media commentator.

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Adam Nicolson

Adam Nicolson is the author of God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible. Nicolson was featured in a 2011 BBC documentary on the Bible. Read a 2003 PBS NewsHour interview with him.

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David Crystal

David Crystal is the author of Begat: The King James Bible and the English Language. Listen to a Dec. 22, 2010, NPR interview with him about English idioms derived from the KJV. Crystal is honorary professor of linguistics at Bangor University in Wales.

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Gordon Campbell

Gordon Campbell is the author of Bible: The Story of the King James Version 1611-2011 and editor of a 400th anniversary edition of the Bible that preserves the original printer’s errors, both for Oxford University Press, one of the original publishers of the Bible. Campbell summarizes his work in a blog post.

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Chaim I. Waxman

Chaim I. Waxman is a professor emeritus of sociology and Jewish studies at Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is an expert on Reconstructionist Judaism. He lives in Jerusalem where he continues to teach and write.

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