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On Friday, October 28 at 3:00 p.m., ZSR Special Collections & Archives in conjunction with the Wake Forest School of Divinity will host “The King James Bible: Its Legend and Legacy.” The lecture and exhibit will focus on the monumental version of the English Bible which celebrates its 400th anniversary this year. The story of the Bible in English is a fascinating epic of kings and queens, common people and martyrs, but is a tale seldom told. Illustrating the lecture will be examples of all of the English Bibles which led up to the publication of the King James Bible in 1611, and the prominent revisions and editions which followed. This lecture is open to the public and will take place in the ZSR Library Special Collections Reading Room.

Michael Morgan is organist at Atlanta’s historic Central Presbyterian Church and is Seminary Musician at Columbia Theological Seminary. He has played recitals and worship services across the country, and in England, Spain, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Michael has served on the board of the Presbyterian Association of Musicians, and currently serves on the National Committee on Seminary and Denominational Relations of the American Guild of Organists. He is also active with the Hymn Society of the United States and Canada, and published his Psalter for Christian Worship, a metrical version of the Psalms, in 1999 (revised, 2010). Since graduate school at Florida State University, he has assembled one of the most comprehensive private collections of English Bibles, New Testaments, and Psalters in the United States.