/lit/ - Literature

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see pic
otherwise I am pretty satisfied with the NJB i.e. New Jerusalem Bible, made in the '80s, probably the last scholarly work before political correctness
KJV is a fine thing to have, and that's a fact.

now, for the serious stuff:
if you want a bible that has Hebrew-English parallel text, I found that the one edited by JPS in 1917 is the most reliable... strange coincidence that the next version came out after the First World War and smells funky

What's the best translation of the Bible. I have a Kings James translation and I don't really like it I'm thinking about getting something like the New Living Translation or The New American Standard Version.

which one to read? and why?