I want to read the Bible. What's the best English translation?

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>>9504681
Something is always lost in translation, so there isn't a single best one. A /lit/fag made a handy chart.

Personally I use NRSV mostly because it's the standard one used in academia, and is very readable.

>>9504688
What kind of differences are there between the denominations bibles?

>>9504707
Most obviously the canon, Catholics have more books than Protestants, Eastern Orthodox have more books than Catholics. Also differences in source texts, Eastern Orthodox use the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures for their Old Testament, Jews only use the standard Hebrew text that was settled on around 200 AD and ignore earlier sources like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

>>9504688
Goddamn what a stupid chart. The fact that it was made in Paint (poor text anti aliasing) should be warning enough.

>>9504757
What's wrong with it?

>>9504717
>>9504688
Why would the canon or denomintationality change?

>>9504681
Just don't fall for the King James meme please.
Also protip:read the New Testament first

>>9504761
For one it says "Which bible should I get?", as if such a vague title were applicable only to English translations of the Bible. A better chart name would be "Which English translation of the bible should I get", and better yet, specifically, which Publisher and edition they should get.

And it doesn't even include text samples from each version, to allow the reader to compare from the chart itself. It's all very low effort and pitiful, which truly makes it a 4chan original.

>>9504765
Catholics, Protestants and Orthodox have difference canons, but only amounting to a handful of Hebrew Bible books that few people fuss about. Some fundamentalist Protestant churches revered the KJV (or new KJV) and that's what all their congregation use. I think this is because it pre-dates modern biblical scholarship, although this isn't true for the new KJV. I agree with the first poster that the NRSV is the way to go.

>>9504777
You are a retarded pendentic, protip: more information is not always better.
And translation samples are useless if you don't know the original Greek, Hebrew, you would just be tricking yourself into thinking you are making a informed decision. And the chart is in English so OF COURSE It is referring to English translations

>>9504777
>"Which bible should I get?", as if such a vague title were applicable only to English translations of the Bible

This isn't /int/ you contentious faggot, even they wouldn't be that sensitive.

>>9504777
>which Publisher and edition they should get
Some of the NRSV study bibles are interesting but hardly necessary. Someone knew to the Bible is better off downloading the Oxford Bible Commentary from /lit/-approved sites which has chapters devoted to each book, discussing the context (date, authorship debates, audience, etc.) and meaning.

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>>9504681
The pidgin translation

>>9504788
Why wouldn't they just use all the books?

>>9504793
>"more information is not better"
>suggests that throwing interlingual information is better than well chosen text samples
Imbecilic autist, go home.

>>9504798
>/lit/-approved sites
ELL EM AY OH

>>9504805
Doesn't the sticky list download site? Whatever. Get it off library genesis.

>>9504800
I really want one but it's expensive as fuck.

>>9504801
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

>>9504801
Basically because some of the books didn't serve to communicate an important aspect of the religion, and while still useful as knowledge, were not due to be categorized as essential as the 60 or so works commonly compiled in most bibles.

>>9504801
Well Martin Luther came along and said they should only use the books that have Hebrew manuscripts because the others only exist in Greek, and were written later. The Catholic church disagreed and reaffirmed those later books in an official council. The Eastern Orthodox have a looser view of canon (it varies slightly between their churches) so that dispute is pretty meaningless for them.

Some protestant bibles have an "Apocrypha" section where they put those later books. The NRSV has the most complete Apocrypha section because it includes the Eastern Orthodox books as well as the Catholic ones, so I'd get that if you want all of them.

>>9504681
King James Version (KJV). If your too much of a brainlet, then use the New King James Version (NKJV), it's the original without all the 'Ye olde Shakespearean English' that people can't understand.


Anything else is pleb. Especially the NIV. If you read the NIV unironically you should kill yourself.

>>9504777
holy shit you autist