> modern Western history I'd say, modern English-speaking history. The KJV has little relevance to German-speakers, French-speakers, etc. In German, Martin Lut

> modern Western history I'd say, modern English-speaking history. The KJV has little relevance to German-speakers, French-speakers, etc. In German, Martin Luther's translation established, more or less, what is now Hochdeutsch (or Standard Germany), and significantly predates the KJV.