/lit/ - Literature

Speaking of pretty yet impractical, I would pay dearly for a facsimile of one of these editions.

>>20834753
OP, ignore everyone else in this thread.

Go to
https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Tanakh
and just start reading the book of Genesis. Whenever you feel like it, read through some of the commentary that Jewish sages have written on each verse throughout the millennia, much of which Sefaria makes accessible in English translation in a very convenient manner.

Two sources of commentary available on Sefaria which I urge you to read at least a few pages of are Rashi (possibly the most famous Torah commentator ever) and the Talmud.

For some background knowledge, I recommend watching this short video on how scholars think the Bible was actually created:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NY-l0X7yGY0

As well as this one on the 13 principles of Judaism as laid out by Maimonides, one of the most influential Rabbis of all time:
https://youtu.be/bvyxS62guos

So that's the Old Testament as it is understood by the people who actually wrote it, the Jews. It should keep you busy for a year or so, if you read only a little bit of commentary.

For the New Testament, the most historically relevant English translations are the KJV, which however uses some archaic language that makes it hard to read; and the Scofield Reference Bible, which is hated by many of the kind of people who revere the KJV. The versions based on cutting-edge bible research (we find new manuscripts all the time etc.) are the NIV and ESV, but unfortunately they make a lot of concessions to political correctness.
https://www.stepbible.org is about the best website for reading the New Testament.

>>20843934
Garamond's Grecs du roi font is a bit too busy for me, with all those fancy ligatures and whatnot