Posted: 12/17/2004 7:49:07 PM EDT
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Which do you perfer, the New American Bible(written in modern English) or the King Jame's Version? I'm not too familiar with the New American Bible, though I think the Bible needs to be updated from time to time as the language changes. Too many people are confused by the arcane language of the King Jame's version and stay away from reading it. |
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My grandfather is an ordaine dminister (AG), and he showed me a reprot where the worlds top Biblical scholars and theologians got together and compared different versions of the Bible w/ the original Greek and Hebrew mans. The results: The Amplified Bible (the one w/ all the stuff in parenthesis like this) is the absolute closest to the real meaning of the original texts. Reason being is that some of the hebrew and Greek words had different meanings in different contexts. Some of the translations use words that aren't really the conveying the mesage as accuratly as the original manuscripts. 2nd place was The New American Standard Bible...also a good copy, but w/o as much explanation of individual words KJV and NKJV ranked much lower, but I can't remeber where exactly...do a google search for "most acurate Bible translation" or somethin. FWIW I love the Amplified and NASB, check one out sometime! 
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The King James Bible is always the one that I use. Simply because the language is so poetic. There's nothing like the English language at that period in history. Written in the same gramatical style and vocabulary as Shakespeare, and even more influential on the English language than even the Bard! Eric The(Bible101)Hun 
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| I find the New King James version to be my favorite, but I use the NIV and the Amplified versions as well. The NKJV does a good job of preserving what I like about the KJV, but it uses more modern words and terms to convey the meaning a little more clearly. How many people use concupiscence in every day language these days? |