Andrew Bing (1574–1652) was an

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scholar. He was a fellow of

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, and succeeded Geoffrey King as Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. He served on the "First Cambridge Company" charged by

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with translating parts of the

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for the

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. Bing served as subdean of

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in 1606 and Archdeacon of

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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 {{Hebrew-lang-stub