Andrew Bing (1574–1652) was an
English
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scholar. He was a fellow of
Peterhouse, Cambridge
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, and succeeded
Geoffrey King as
Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. He served on the "First Cambridge Company" charged by
James I of England
James VI and I (James Charles Stuart; 19 June 1566 – 27 March 1625) was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567 and King of England and King of Ireland, Ireland as James I from the Union of the Crowns, union of the Scottish and Eng ...
with translating parts of the
Old Testament
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for the
King James Version of the Bible
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.
Bing served as subdean of
York Minster
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in 1606 and Archdeacon of
Norwich
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in 1618.
References
;Notes
* McClure, Alexander (1858) ''The Translators Revived: a biographical memoir of the authors of the English Version of the Holy Bible''. Mobile, Alabama: R. E. Publications (republished by the Maranatha Bible Society, 1984 ASIN B0006YJPI8)
* Nicolson, Adam (2003) ''God's Secretaries: the making of the King James Bible.'' New York: HarperCollins
Regius Professors of Hebrew (Cambridge)
1574 births
1652 deaths
Translators of the King James Version
17th-century English translators
16th-century English people
17th-century English clergy
Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Norwich
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