What is the best English translation of the Bible?

[Anonymous No.18831157]

[Anonymous No.18831164]

Orthodox Study Bible

[Anonymous No.18831171]

>>18831157
King James is good enough and is also the most referenced in English, so it's the best for any English speaker to read. Also, it's nice to read.

[Anonymous No.18831219]

>>18831157
The NRSV is the standard academic translation. Larpers here will recommend the KJV, but avoid it if you want to understand the Bible.

[Anonymous No.18831236]

>this thread again

[Anonymous No.18831237]

What about the Ignatius?

[Anonymous No.18831240]

>>18831157
Don't just rely on one translation, compare multiple to get a better idea of the true meaning. If you really want to understand it, learn Hebrew and Greek. (Aleph with Beth is a good start for the former, and Athenaze for the latter.)

[Anonymous No.18831241]

>>18831157
The AUTHORIZED version of course

[Anonymous No.18831265]

What if I like the Catholic saints, especially the Carmelites: is there a Bible more suited for this?

[Anonymous No.18831309]

>>18831171
And it's the only one with unicorns

[Anonymous No.18831349]

KJV and NIV
Everything in between is kind of goofy.
I have high hopes for the Legacy Standard Bible.

[Anonymous No.18831357]

I'm a youth minister (non-denominational). I find the KJV to be pretentious so I use the NIV and the NESV.

[Anonymous No.18831388]

>>18831357
Fuck off and die you cotton candy half ass faggot. Non denominationals are non committal praise worshiping feel good opportunists with balls the size of ovaries. You disgust me

[Anonymous No.18831442]

>>18831164
I am thinking of getting one of these
>>18831171
>>18831241
I usually just go with KJV though
>>18831219
This is true and the most academic version allegedly. Am considering acquiring one of these

[Anonymous No.18831455]

>And God said: Be light made. And light was made.
>God said to Moses: I AM WHO AM. He said: Thus shalt thou say to the children of Israel: HE WHO IS, hath sent me to you.

[Anonymous No.18831468]

>>18831219
NRSVikings rise up

[Anonymous No.18831578]

Douay-Rheims (equivalent) and Knox (dynamic)

[Anonymous No.18831599]

>>18831157
CEV bible is based. It's in modern english

[Anonymous No.18831615]

ESV
Translated for accuracy, not for style or at the whim of the translator

[Anonymous No.18831799]

>>18831615
>ESV
>Translated for accuracy, not for style or at the whim of the translator
We only need to get 3 chapters into Genesis to know that is false. See Genesis 3:16 in the ESV.

[Anonymous No.18831824]

for literature, kjv
for understanding, i like the niv
for research, learn koine (very easy, can take you 6 weeks)

[Anonymous No.18831828]

>>18831455
are you saying god is a chad?
i think thats the entire point of religion

[Anonymous No.18831855]

>>18831824
6 weeks? How did you learn it?

[Anonymous No.18831869]

>>18831824
>for research, learn koine (very easy, can take you 6 weeks)
How do I learn koine Greek in 6 weeks

[Anonymous No.18831941]

>>18831236
>Orthodox Study Bible
Literally the KJV, proving once again the orthos are heretics of the highest order

[Anonymous No.18832200]

>>18831869
By lying to people on /lit/ to sound smart

[Anonymous No.18832661]

I can’t believe people shill for NIV it has intentional mistranslations probably done in bad faith

[Anonymous No.18832756]

What about Didache?

[Anonymous No.18832768]

>>18831157
What you really should do is get the Bible app, which contains multiple editions of the Bible. From there you can choose the editions you want and compare verses from the different versions.

[Anonymous No.18832778]

>>18832768
That's pretty much what I said here>>18831240

[Anonymous No.18832788]

>>18832778
Yes. I just broke a t down in some simple steps.

[Anonymous No.18833335]

>>18832768
Which app do you recommend?

[Anonymous No.18833425]

>>18831157
My church uses NASB and NIV but I prefer KJV. I just love the use of archaic words in every verse I read.

[Anonymous No.18833455]

>>18833335
I use "Bible Study": https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.bible.android.activity/
It is the best libre Bible app I could find, which is pretty good and gets the Jon done with a few quirks. You download the versions—it is mostly older versions, I have e.g. KJV, Lutherbibel, Vulgate, Wycliffe and a few others, but for some reason (the default repositories) don't have NIV/ESV/etc—you can easily switch between the ones you have, and there is also Strong's Heb./Greek available to enable. You can also download some jns, etc. You can search through certain books, either testament, or the whole bible with a few different search options. Other than bookmarking, those are basically all the features I use, if not more than what I regularly use.
However, I usually prefer a physical Bible.

[Anonymous No.18833532]

>>18831157
Mine

[Anonymous No.18833544]

>>18831869
>How do I learn koine Greek in 6 weeks
You don't

[Anonymous No.18833547]

I recently dove into tradLARPing and I went with a KJV reference and an ESV study. How hard was I memed?

[Anonymous No.18833645]

>Read the Vulgate in Latin
>You get to pretend to be more sophisticated than vernacular readers, while still reading a Bible written for the common person
Get on my level

[Anonymous No.18833815]

>>18831855
>>18831869
gareth morgan greek sysytem, called "Lexis"
teachings greek as bases, with markers to denote how the base is being changed

>>18832200
>>18833544
i just taught the course for the last six weeks, it is 100% possible
you learn ionic dialect, then translition to attic (Herodotus into Lysias)
from there, you can grab a NT Grammar to learn the idiosyncrasies of Koine and read the NT and Septuagint

>>18832756
Didcahe is pretty cool, I have the Holmes edition—English facing Greek. I think the Loeb might also have a translation, but I'm not sure.

[Anonymous No.18833837]

>>18831388
Based

[Anonymous No.18833861]

>>18831157
I haven’t read it, but iirc the most accurate bible to the original is the ethiopian one.

[Anonymous No.18834024]

>>18833861
>most accurate bible to the original is the ethiopian one.
The Ge'ez one from the 6th century? It has an extra book in the Old Testament and eight extra books in the New Testament.

[Anonymous No.18834223]

>>18833544
Have you ever actually tried? It's really not that difficult. The challenge in learning any language is going from the basic grammar to the more advanced while building a significant vocabulary. If you give yourself just an hour a day with Black's textbook you should be able to work though it in two months unless you're legitimately retarded.

[Anonymous No.18834228]

>>18831828
No, he's pretending like that translation is in any way good.

[Anonymous No.18834481]

>>18833815
I meant the Didache bible: It's a study Bible based on the catechism.

[Anonymous No.18834532]

>>18834228
It's so good. I'll admit that the writings (Psalms, Ecclesiastes, etc) are a bit clunky, and the King James has it better for those books, but in general, Douay Rheims is the best

[Anonymous No.18835839]

>>18834024
Yeah apparently it has undergone fewer alterations. Can’t speak to quality, but the pederasts haven’t had their way with it at all which is appealing.

[Anonymous No.18835894]

>>18831157
Eccl 8:4 says king James is the only bible with power

[Anonymous No.18836319]

>>18831157
My new leather kjv 1611 finally arrived.
I will never need another bible.

[Anonymous No.18836401]

>>18836319
does it have the original script?

[Anonymous No.18836845]

>>18833815
Can you explain a little more about how 'Lexis' works?

[Anonymous No.18836858]

The Zondervan Greek and English Interlinear New Testament (NASB/NIV) by William D. Mounce and Robert H. Mounce

The Zondervan interlinear NIV Hebrew-English Old Testament by John R. Kohlenberger III

[Anonymous No.18836901]

>>18836845
yeah its actually dope as fuck

textbooks like Hansen and Quinn, which is one of the few typical Greek 101-102 books (Wheelocks for Greek, essentially), was initially made to be an intensive course (i.e. first year greek in 12 weeks).
Professors realized that students were not transitioning well from sentences in books like Hansen and Quinn to real Greek texts (typically Xenophon is the second-year text), so they tried to figure out how to teach the second-year class differently
gareth morgan decided to change how to teach first-year greek, so developed an intensive course for 10 weeks at UT Austin, in which Greek students would end up reading around 300 lines from Herodotus (Ionic dialect), 500ish lines from Lysias (Attic), the entirety of the Apology (also Attic), and usually also Medea (tragic verse, which is its own thing). This was in the 70s.
Later, the professors who taught it ended up cutting some of the reading, since reading that much greek, after learning greek so quickly, has its pros and cons, and the ideas around how to teach changed a bit, so now its generally all the herodotus, half the lysias, most of the apology, and usually oedipus rex instead of medea (medea is kinda long

as far as how to teach the actual greek, it forgoes memorization of principle parts (extremely necessary in the traditional manners), and instead teaches as bases
so instead of:
λύω, λῡ́σω, ἔλῡσᾰ, λέλῠκᾰ, λέλῠμαι, ἐλῠ́θην
(principle parts, showing the first-person, singular of the present, future, aorist, perfect, perfect middle, aorist passive)
you learn
λῠ/
since all verbal forms use a verb base
then you learn progressive aspect markers, or past time markers; you learn primary and secondary thematic endings, athematic endings, etc etc
so building each greek word from their discrete parts, as opposed to a rote-memorization method that greek classes typically use

just finished teaching a 6-week version, would be willing to run it for some anons if they want to spread it across like 3 months, we probably could

[Anonymous No.18836956]

>>18831455
Fucking Kek

[Anonymous No.18837116]

>>18831219
>gender neutral poz version
I have one on my shelf just to remind myself how much it sucks. Only non-Whites deviate from the KJV

[Anonymous No.18837127]

>>18831455
>I AM WHO AM

[Anonymous No.18837142]

>>18837116
>claiming to be Christian
>racism
Galatians 3:28

[Anonymous No.18837159]

>>18831824
Biblical academics like you are the hypocritical scribes of the modern age.

[Anonymous No.18837176]

>>18834532
Holy cope, you screw up the 2 best books of the OT and still continue to shill your controlled op edition. Just accept Christ for real, already.

[Anonymous No.18837193]

>>18837142
All are one in Christ from a spiritual point of view, however that doesn't mean that the earthly ignorance of the lower races won't negatively impact the word of God if they're not kept in check and reminded of their place in this world. I wish minorities weren't so awful, but alas.

[Anonymous No.18837367]

>>18837159
i am also christian tho, independent of any of my studies

[Anonymous No.18837949]

Still KJV. Beauty matters, and a good case is made for it in Pen of Iron. RSV is perfectly fine if you don't want to spend some time getting used to KJV though