Welcome to the nineteenth edition of the Question of the Week! Please consider sending me your ideas for future questions :)
Do you like to read different translations of the Bible? Why or why not? Do you have one dependable and/or beloved translation that you use all the time? Or do you like to keep things fresh by adding different translations to your rotation?I own many different translations. You've probably noticed that I'm not reading typical translations at the moment. Right now, I'm reading the Tyndale New Testament. And earlier in the year, I completed the Wycliffe New Testament. And the 1599 Geneva Bible is on my to-do list.
I love reading the Bible. I do. I love reading different translations of the Bible. Granted, I don't think you *have* to like different translations of the Bible in order to 'prove' your love or anything. I'm not a crazy, vindictive person. But I like the variety. I like the process of becoming familiar with a translation. Of getting to know it. Of becoming friends. But I need more than one friend. I like getting to know other translations. So one year, I might be all about the New King James. The next year I might be all over the New Living Translation. Typically though, I have two or three that I'm reading at a time. Whether it takes me a year or two or three.
This year my goal is to read in the ESV Study Bible, finish the Tyndale New Testament, and get started in the 1599 Geneva Bible.
© Becky Laney of Operation Actually Read Bible
4 comments:
I've pretty much stuck with the New International Version. I like it. What can I say! For the Psalms I like the King James version. Its hard to improve on.
I like the New King James version the best. Then the NIV and then the Amplified.
I was given a Living Bible as a teen (when it was a new concept!) and gradually moved on to the NIV. After 16 years in Brazil I "graduated" to the Brazilian KJV because I wanted to learn the most often used scriptural phrases in Portuguese. It's tricky sometimes, but I really learn a lot reading in a different language. I have to pay a lot more attention!
My church uses the New Revise Standard Version. I'm liking The Message. I also like Good News for Modern Man. Have you heard of Gospel Net? It has alot of translations and paraphafrases. Here is the link:
http://www.christianity.com/
Judy/Intergalatic Bookworm
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