I'm a college student majoring in literature. As such, what

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Imagine the best qualities of the King James, and NRSV rolled into one with a dash of Homeric vernacular

>>9053765
KJV is essential for literature and most artistic understandings of the Bible. I don't know about the NSRV specifically, but if you're reading for accuracy or for religious studies in general, that's probably the way to go.

original greek and hebrew.

>>9053772
Do your happen to have a digital copy?

>>9053765
I recommend you kill yourself asap

>Reading only one translation of the Bible

No words.

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>>9053765
KJV or nothing

seriously though you'll be missing out on half the experience of the bible if you don't use the KJV ... some of that prose is jaw-dropping

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>>9054108
ho ho ho

KJV is overrated and only used by proddies in the USA who for some reason seem to think it's the only "real" translation.

>>9053765
>I'm a college student majoring in literature.

Stop scrawling in all the library books, you bloody philistine. You people make me sick.

>>9053765
You should honestly read both side by side. You get a much better picture of what it's saying, both poetically and literally.