Which version of the Bible should I read? I'm interested in the background it provides for western literature, so I'm not looking for modernized or abridged versions.
Which version of the Bible should I read? I'm interested in the background it provides for western literature...
Thomas Watson
Jackson Flores
Oxford NSRV
Jacob Flores
ESV for modern English is good. Most versions are fine though, just avoid the NIV it's pretty bad
Gavin Collins
>Not looking for modernized versions
The King James Version is the cornerstone of Western literature
Cooper Moore
If he just reads the King James he won't get half of it, not because the text is difficult, but because he won't understand the context.
He should just get a modernized version.
However, if he really, really doesn't want a modernized one then yeah, King James is pretty much the best one.
Caleb Edwards
If you're really interested in the book's influence on English literature, it has to be the King James. If you want to read it as literature in its own right you can pick whatever.
Nolan Parker
I've got both NSRV and KJV up right now, and I have to admit that I'm already missing subtleties in KJV. Looks like my eyes were too big for my Early Modern English.
Jackson Reyes
Perhaps I've been unlucky, but when I've stayed in a hotel and it was available (which I didn't realise was an actual thing) I've read random sections and found it pretty horrific. It reads like a list of gross over reactions by a complete incompetent who isn't fit to rule. God essentially tortures and commits genocide on a whim. Are there any teachings other than "be fearful"?
James Green
That's the Old Testament for you. The Israelites keep fucking up and God keeps punishing them. The message of the OT is basically that the buck stops with God so you don't mess around with him.
The New Testament is basically telling you that you're going to hell unless you believe in Jesus.
Connor Perry
OP says
> I'm not looking for modernized or abridged versions.
user Responds
>He should just get a modernized version.
Carson Harris
>no modernized version
Learn Greek and Hebrew then.
Dominic Murphy
has to be kjv
Alexander Price
you should read the newest version, obviously.
> mfw Book of Susan and Book of Hairdryer
Levi Long
There is a 2 volume Norton Critical edition of the KJV titled "The English Bible." It has copious notes to help you.
Cameron Thomas
King James obviously.
Adam Brown
Revised Standard Edition, Ignatius Press
Andrew Richardson
Depends if you only want to see it's impact on English lit or if you want to understand all of it.
English lit only: KJV (preferrably the original 1611 version)
Understanding it: see chart
Austin Ortiz
KJV or NASB
Sebastian Allen
>The New Testament is basically telling you that you're going to hell unless you believe in Jesus.
What?
Connor Flores
John 3:18
>Those who believe in him are not condemned; but those who do not believe are condemned already, because they have not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
Angel Cruz
NKJV, the Oxford, the NASV, Lattimore's New Testament, Alter's OT (the ones he's done so far; he's supposed to be finished in 2018), the KJV,.
Landon Myers
Definitely this one.
Zachary Nguyen
>Which version of the Bible should I read?
The Holy one. It's got to say Holy on the cover otherwise it's a pretend bible.
Andrew Ross
Nah senpai, new covenant
Jacob Nelson
Anyone read Thomas Jefferson's reorganized one?
Samuel Nguyen
Thoughts on the Knox bible?
Isaiah Rivera
This, only the Didache Bible.
John Ortiz
KJV
it's the #2 source of English idioms, behind Shakespeare's work as a whole