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Which versions of the Bible should a researcher read?
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Soontir C'boath
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I just want to make sure about this question I have since searching for Bibles on Amazon a moment ago, are there any differences between the publishers that makes them?
The reason I ask is, I am seeing several results with different publishers for the same version and I don't want to possibly get the wrong one.
The reason I ask is, I am seeing several results with different publishers for the same version and I don't want to possibly get the wrong one.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
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The footnotes and cross references might be different from one to the next.Soontir C'boath wrote:I just want to make sure about this question I have since searching for Bibles on Amazon a moment ago, are there any differences between the publishers that makes them?
The reason I ask is, I am seeing several results with different publishers for the same version and I don't want to possibly get the wrong one.
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On-topic, I'd like to ask if they still print Bible's in the original Greek? I've made it my goal to read the Torah, the Koran and the Bible in their original languages, if I can A) learn them and B) get ahole of the texts.
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Get the huge oxford Bible commentary, I've heard good reviews of it from biblical scholar types, and it will help to convey to you the several thousand year old allegories, hero worship and so on in an impartial manner.
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I'll definitely have to get that and the Oxford Annotated NRSV. I just bought the KJV and NIV and looking into the others as BN only had the two I bought and the one Jehovah's use.Rye wrote:Get the huge oxford Bible commentary, I've heard good reviews of it from biblical scholar types, and it will help to convey to you the several thousand year old allegories, hero worship and so on in an impartial manner.
There's a Christian store near where I live which I'll have to check out some other time as I am going back to college tomorrow. It's runned by spanish folks so I should find the NRSV there.
The commentary is about fourty bucks which is a bit steap for me at the moment so it could be the last to be bought.
I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."
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They definitely print Bibles in Greek. Whether it's modern Greek, or the ancient Greek, sadly escapes me at the moment. However, you can most certainly get the other two in Hebrew and Arabic, respectively. Good luck on that goal... rather hefty...Vicious wrote:Sig'd!Darth Servo wrote:[yoda fundie]
Old matters not. Perfect the bible is. Change it cannot.
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On-topic, I'd like to ask if they still print Bible's in the original Greek? I've made it my goal to read the Torah, the Koran and the Bible in their original languages, if I can A) learn them and B) get ahole of the texts.
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