The
Revised Version or
English Revised Version of the
Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the
King James Version. It was the first and remains the only officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in Britain. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Britain. American scholars were invited to co-operate, by correspondence. The
New Testament was published in 1881, the
Old Testament in 1885, and the
Apocrypha in 1894. The best known of the translation committee members were
Brooke Foss Westcott and
Fenton John Anthony Hort; their fiercest critic of that period was
John William Burgon.