Joannes Froben, a printer in Basel, Switzerland, persuadedthe noted Biblical scholar Erasmus of Rotterdam to come to his city toprepare a Greek New Testament edition. Using manuscripts from the libraryat Basel University, the two men produced their Greek text in 1516. Itbecame known as the textus receptus (Latin for received text).It was a basic guide for the translators of the KingJames Version. It began being replaced about two hundred years later bya critical text.¹

1. The Bible Almanac. Nelson, 1980. Page 75.