Revised Version Revised Version The Revised Version (RV) or English Revised Version (ERV) of the Bible is a late 19th-century British revision of the King James Version. It was the first and remains the only officially authorised and recognised revision of the King James Version in Britain. The work was entrusted to over 50 scholars from various denominations in Britain. American scholars were invited to co-operate, by correspondence. The New Testament was published in 1881, the Old Testament in 1885, and the Apocrypha in 1894. The best known of the translation committee members were Brooke Foss Westcott and Fenton John Anthony Hort;
The Beatles: The Authorised Biography that Davies provides a "fascinating essay" in the 2002 revised edition. Writing in "New Statesman" in 2012, Davies said he was hurt at the time by Lennon's dismissal of the book as "bullshit", and that he was still being asked to respond to Lennon's critique over 40 years later. Davies' official history remained the only authorised book about the Beatles' career until Harrison's 1980 autobiography, "I, Me, Mine", and McCartney's authorised biography, "Many Years from Now", written by Barry Miles and published in 1997. Miles, who says he regularly used "The Beatles" as a reference work for "Many Years from