RE: Which Bible?
May 2, 2012 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2012 at 9:32 pm by Justtristo.)
Robert M Price recommends both the Revised Standard Version (RSV) from before around 1970 and the New American Standard Bible (NASB). Other Non-Evangelical biblical scholars such as Bart D Ehrman for example quote from the New Revised Standard Version.
Robert Price recommended the NASB because fundamentalists translated it and were not likely to distort certain verses to make them more politically correct.
Before I got a copy of the English Standard Version (becoming more popular as of late among Evangelicals). I read from the New International Version (NIV), because that is the translation Evangelicals read the most. Although I do have a eBook copy of the NASB.
Overall the NIV is a fairly good translation from what I have heard, although I agree with Robert Price that it does "cheat" in certain verses. Such as Jesus saying the "largest of all your seeds", instead of the "largest of all seeds".
Robert Price recommended the NASB because fundamentalists translated it and were not likely to distort certain verses to make them more politically correct.
Before I got a copy of the English Standard Version (becoming more popular as of late among Evangelicals). I read from the New International Version (NIV), because that is the translation Evangelicals read the most. Although I do have a eBook copy of the NASB.
Overall the NIV is a fairly good translation from what I have heard, although I agree with Robert Price that it does "cheat" in certain verses. Such as Jesus saying the "largest of all your seeds", instead of the "largest of all seeds".
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