Which version of the bible should I read, /lit/? I've heard

side step the entire argument between versions and just read an original example in the Greek it was written in

>>9312659
ESV

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>>9312659
>King James version.
yea
if you a PRODDY FUCK and therefore not Christian

NEV

NASB has the most readability while retaining its accuracy.

>>9312659
Depends what you're reading for. KJV for pleasure, but for beginners NIV or NRSV.

>Not reading multiple versions

>>9312871
>not using a study bible with six versions side by side, explaining the context and all of the possible different interpretations

>>9312659
NIV

>>9312787
Deus Vult

>>9312717
>original
>greek

>>9312873
>all of the possible different interpretations

>>9312909

it's the only one that matters

>>9312659
NRSV
Approved by RC, PC, OC.
Bestest version.

>>9312659
Orthodox study bible, ignore any who tell you KJV they are protestant and should be disregarded as trolls.

>>9312659
NABRE
http://usccb.org/bible/

>>9312873
>not translating and producing your own

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>>9312659
<- Here you go. Everyone has their preference and it depends what you're using it for.

>>9312805
>>9312882
NIV is a poor translation:

>https://isthatinthebible.wordpress.com/articles-and-resources/deliberate-mistranslation-in-the-new-international-version-niv/
>http://www.bible-researcher.com/niv.html

>>9313343
The new testament of the OSB is the NKJV which uses the exact same sources as the KJV. Good one, bucko.

>>9312787
reminder that the apostles were more like Pentecostals than catholics.

>>9314082
Good thing the 2011 version of the NIV fixes those issues.

>>9312909
Koine Greek is still Greek.

>>9314087

certainly that's what a protestant would want to purport

>>9312659
>2017
>Believing in a magical skydaddy

>>9312717
Underrated

>>9314302
>2017
>not understanding that the bible is the crux of all artistic creation in the common era

>>9314302

>2017
>being an uncultured mook

>>9314265
First link:
>the bulk of this list concerns the 2011 NIV

Second link:
>Reviewed by Michael Marlowe, October 2011

>>9313191
>>9312805
These.

Listen to me OP, get the Oxford Annotated Bible with the apocrypha and read that first to actually get an understanding of what you're reading. Then read the KJV for all the pretty prose

>>9314302
You literally cannot read Western Literature without knowledge of the Bible, it's arguably more important than The Greeks

>>9312659
NASB or ESV

get the one with the powdered cheese instead of salt

>>9314082
The leading textual critics including Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace have both said 2011 NIV is the closest to the "original".

Douay-Rheims.

>>9316288
Ehrman did not say that, he's said the NRSV is his preferred translation

https://ehrmanblog.org/problems-with-other-translations-for-members/

>>9312913
why do you think different denominations exist? people disagree on some fundamental (and a ton of less fundamental) things

>>9312659
Vulgate

My brother is studying to become a pastor and he recommends the New King James version. I went from KJV to Common English then NKJV and I believe NKJV has all the prose of KJV but easier to digest and understand.

>>9312659
Just read the KJV. That's the one people will be referencing. It's the one which contains the idioms you will see in literature. For your own spiritual development, you should work through an interlinear version of the New Testament.

>>9312659
King Joffrey version

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>>9312802
this

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>>9315910
>arguably

JPS translation for literary superiority.

>>9317775
NKJV is kind of pointless in my opinion. It uses the same sources as the KJV when much better manuscripts are available for modern translators. If you want literary style, read KJV, if you want more readability any other modern translation is fine and will use earlier source texts.

>Not reading spanish bible from a gas station
I can't believ this board is so dumb

>>9317893
>Not reading the Hawaii Pidgin version