>Infinitely more readable than other bibles >accurate/literal >lacks the baggage of biblical scholarship >not hindered by religious dogma
>After the monumental translation of The Odyssey and even more transporting Iliad, he Englished the four Gospels, the Book of Acts and Epistles, and the Revelation whose author he did not think was the Apostle John. There was one evangelist he preferred for his elegant Greek, and when recovering in hospital from surgery he said that his doubts about the Faith had disappeared "somewhere in Saint Luke." He announced that he would be baptized at Easter. At the public baptism, with closed eyes and head uplifted, Dick solemnly recited the Creed whose Greek was his vernacular. He instructed that at his funeral this story be told to all his academic colleagues
Why are you not reading the Greatest translation of the new testament available to humanity?
Lincoln Peterson
thanks, user
Noah Robinson
Because it's still just a shitty mary sue fanfic regardless of who translated it.
Carter Perry
I will likely get this as a companion to the KJV
Lucas Collins
>readable Pleb. >accurate/literal Edgy.
Zachary Scott
underage and Veeky Forums newfag b&
Joseph Jones
>current year >spouts "le mary sue" meme as if he's the first to do so
kys
Carter Richardson
>implying the bible was meant to be assfucked by academia who constantly distract readers from the word of God with their commentary and notes
Juan Watson
Is there an old testament equivalent?
Jordan Sanders
robert alter
Brayden Ramirez
Getting this after I finish my New Testament read through from the Oxford Annotated Bible and Orthodox Study Bible.
I've been reading some St. Maximus the Confessor. A bit past halfway through "On the Cosmic Mystery of Jesus Christ." It's a perfect sequel to my read of "The Orthodox Way" by Metropolitan Kallistos Ware.
Christianity has never made more sense to me.
Camden Edwards
>when god began to create heaven and earth, and the earth then was welter and waste LOL no
Kevin Lopez
Actually, yeah
John Williams
It's significantly different from >In the beginning God created Heaven and the Earth, and the Earth was formless and void In KJV it starts with god's creation immediately and this creation is an empty malleable clay, where Alter starts with the awkward preposition "before" and essentially tells the reader there weren't things before god made things, which is messy and convoluted.
Jace Edwards
he's right though
Gavin Clark
It turns out the Hebrews that received this infallible and directly inspired text didn't think God created the universe but simply shuffled around chaos
Ethan Ross
it has a poetic ring to it though, i must say
Asher Diaz
Is the idea of the Bible as an infallible text one that is emphasized primarily in American Evangelical/Protestant teachings, or is it one that is popular with Catholicism and Orthodoxy as well? In my Baptist church as a kid and teenager it was emphasized very heavily that the word is perfect and was in no way messed with by humans at any point, but taking religion courses at university it sounds like a text that had been tampered with a lot,even before translation.
Lucas Cruz
It's like every orthodox larper can namedrop a total of 3 books besides the bible for the orthodox reading list
Joseph Ortiz
The Bible is in Catholicism infallible, but not in a literal way as far as interpretation goes.
Nathaniel Hill
People often recommend those so I bought them and read them.
I think they're good, so I recommended them too.
It's good to share joy with others.
Ian Martinez
Just read the KJV you hipster
Jordan Jones
>doesn't realize the KJV was a translation made (in part) with the agenda of making the Catholics look bad It may be the best for prose, but for actual religious study it is not in the least.
Nathaniel Price
Lattimore's is the driest, least poetic Odyssey translation in English. Is his NT any better?
Michael Foster
>but taking religion courses at university it sounds like HAHAHAHAHAhahahAHahA
Daniel Clark
ESV is pretty good, got the dead sea scrolls in it
Eli Davis
KING JAMES BITCH
Jordan Lewis
>Not reading your Orthodox Study Bible while binge listening to 'Coffee With Sister Vassa' after coming home from Vespers
My favorite is the good old RSV.
Cameron Perry
Is there an Apocrypha equivalent?
Has he translated the entire OT yet? His books are separated.
Justin James
Higher education (good higher education at least) is required to get to the facts of the matter, which is that the Bible is obviously a heavily edited anthology of books composed over long periods of time that was hastily compiled for the sake of preservation. The challenge for Christianity, now that they are unable to grandstand on silly false axioms due to archaeological, anthropological, and natural scientific discoveries, is to find a way to continue with these discoveries.
Which is possible, but it objectively requires expelling a lot of the old attitudes and dogmas. This is the struggle for Christianity, ideologically, now. Christianity in 100 years' time, if it still exists, will be an interesting comparison to Christianity now and earlier.
Oliver Cruz
Hes working on it
Thomas Torres
What does he have left to translate?
Dylan Flores
My understanding is that Catholicism is centered on tradition as well as the Bible; the principles of apostolic succession and the teachings of church are just as important as the Bible itself-- one of the arguments being that personal interpretation of the Bible is open to errors at odds with the supposed theological tradition that traces itself back to Peter.
Colton Price
Divine Revelation is a trinity itself: Sacred Scripture, Apostolic Tradition, and Personal Revelation. None can conflict with the other, so if a belief contradicts Scripture and Tradition it should be critically examined
Dylan Sanders
> Shakespeare wrote KJV > dude read this new one it's the best ever, ignore the translations with no copyright they all suck please give this man money, it's new