wA committee translation, with 3 committees appointed by King James 1 and meeting at
Westminster, Oxford and Cambridge
wInvolved the best scholars in England at a time when
biblical scholarship was at a
peak
wAll the committee members had a very high opinion of the Bible.
wThus the KJV seems to have satisfied all 5 items when it was translated.
wBut with the passage of almost 400 years, it no longer satisfies all these
criteria.