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Andrew Bing (1574–1652) was an England, English scholar. He was a fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and succeeded Geoffrey King (theologian), Geoffrey King as Regius Professor of Hebrew (Cambridge), Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge. He served on the "First Cambridge Company" charged by James I of England with translating parts of the Old Testament for the King James Version of the Bible. Bing served as subdean of York Minster in 1606 and Archdeacon of Norwich Cathedral, Norwich in 1618.


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;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