Conquest Bible

The Conquest Bible is a large-scale revision of the wording of the King James Version, covering the complete Bible. It belongs to the tradition of independent attempts to modernize the Authorized Version of 1611, and was undertaken before the official Revised Version project, the church-sponsored revision of the King James Version carried out in Britain in the later nineteenth century. It is classified as a revision rather than a fresh translation, taking the King James Version as both its base text and its predecessor translation; its source language is accordingly English, though with consultation of the original languages. Its translation philosophy is modernizing and corrective, and it was marketed as correcting many mistranslations and obsolete expressions that had accumulated in, or been carried over by, the older wording. It thus stands among the private revisions that anticipated the broader revision movement of its era.