/lit/ - Literature

>>23353650
Ronald Knox is the best bible in English. You now, actually being written in English instead of falling for the accuracy meme (to Latin for DR, a composite text for Kang James, modern critical Hebrew-Greek for ESV or RSV or their 100 offshoots of revisions).
The accuracy obsession and illiterate-friendliness are the two sides of the anglo bible coin. Clearly the history of Christianity in the English speaking world proves it didn't help spirituality or theology with their 1245 increasingly zionist denominations.

>>21997658
Ronald Knox Version.
Embrace texts actually written in English, not some disgusting anglo-yiddish (or anglo-latino) that ends up not being any more "accurate" anyway.

The Knox version is the best to me. It actually is written in English. All the while avoiding any heterodox phrasing found in other paraphrases. In fact conceptual intelligibility was the aim.
It also broke the spell on people pretending that the Douay-Rheims or Kang James readings from around 1600 were inspired. To this day many Anglos still imagine a bible to be wrong for deviating from the supposed classical formulas. The endless succession of "new revised 14th transformed edition of the 1600 text" are proof enough.
>b-but muh paraphrasing
Yes