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Hey /lit/. I want to some great books that shaped our culture (western) and other ones and would like to read some of the best religious texts out there.

As a starter, I want to start with the Bible, but I know it was heavily changed with the times. Which translation of the Bible is truest to the original scriptures? I can read in English or in Portuguese if it would somehow be a more faithful translation. Thanks.

>> No.7419604

The Catholics have a pretty robust bible.
Apocrypha included for free

>> No.7419605

>>7419597
the god delusion

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>> No.7419629

The Bible (KJV, Douey Rheims, Orthodox Study, Oxford Study)

The Dhamapada (Anyone who has good reviews, is Buddhist and not Easwaran)

The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran)

Gnostic Gospels

>> No.7421083

>>7419629
>>7419604

Wasn't the original western Bible written in Greek then translated to Latin? When I mean the original text I mean the hebraic one, which one would be closer to the hebrew text?

>> No.7421094

If you want original go read the Sumerian texts, IMO.

>> No.7421108

>>7421094
>not starting with Sinuhe

>> No.7421254

>>7421094
How does one go about doing that?