E-Text version of the Bible with UNBIASED explanations?

[caschmid]

For the iPad, Kindle, Nook, etc.?

Or is there a website which I can go to with hard facts- what they meant by this. I'm a journalism student and going to investigate Christianity for my college paper. I'm an atheist. Though I am at a very liberal campus, I was a very discouraged when I overheard two obviously Christian students talking about homosexuals and God and being very rude. We have had two too many Christian fundamentalists come to our campus to spread a message of hate. It deeply saddens me.

I'm also looking for a website about the history of the Bible. Good stuff. I can buy books too. I'm looking around everywhere, including EBSCO Host. I'm trying to approach in the most "hands off" way. I don't want my personal opinion to affect anything. And while I am attempting to disprove the Bible---I'm trying to do it a way where FACTS disprove the Bible. Not opinion.

I'm want to go about this in the most honest way possible.

Any sources to help aid my reading would be great. Figure I'd drop by here because I want something that is 100% unbiased. Whether or not it makes sense...

For example: "God created the world in seven days" obviously means someone believes that. Basically I'm looking for "the author meant this..." types of explanations. So I present facts which disprove these passages.

[Drich]

(11th June 2012 21:21)caschmid Wrote:  Any sources to help aid my reading would be great. Figure I'd drop by here because I want something that is 100% unbiased. Whether or not it makes sense...

For example: "God created the world in seven days" obviously means someone believes that. Basically I'm looking for "the author meant this..." types of explanations. So I present facts which disprove these passages.

Those commentaries are called apologetics, and by their nature will be biased. your only other option is to get a lexicon and concordance and go line by line and translate everything for yourself..

[Faith No More]

I think it's going to be very difficult to find material on the bible that isn't the slightest bit biased either way. Perhaps you would be better off looking through the biased material of both sides.

[apophenia]

(11th June 2012 21:39)Faith No More Wrote:  I think it's going to be very difficult to find material on the bible that isn't the slightest bit biased either way. Perhaps you would be better off looking through the biased material of both sides.

One doesn't have to always drink from the same well. While it's way down on my list, I have a mix of resources. There's the annotated skeptic's bible on the web, the library at infidels.org, a new bible translation Ryft turned me onto, classic resources such as bible study programs and concordances, and on one side I have skeptical resources like Asimov's guide to the bible, and on the other more conservative sources like Father Brown's New Testament text and the revised Metzger. The bible is not something that can be mastered by one book or such, and canned apologetics from either side are likely less valuable than becoming truly knowledgeable.

[Tiberius]

Bart Ehram is quite unbiased. He used to be a Christian and studied theology, now is an agnostic as a result of his studies and has written numerous books on the Bible.

[Minimalist]

Quote:For example: "God created the world in seven days" obviously means someone believes that.

There are 33,000+ variants of the xtian cult. Each one thinks their variant is the right one. Wading through that swamp will take high boots.

The divine Tiberius makes a good point about Bart Ehrman but Ehrman is strictly a new testament scholar.