Bible Club

[madnak]

So, finals end soon and I was thinking about a special kind of book club. Over the next few months, we read a Book of the King James version of the Holy Bible every week, starting with Genesis and ending with Revelation. Each week we'll talk about what we read, and everyone will become more familiar with a major work of literature and will see many viewpoints from all sides of the spectrum about every part of the Bible in its full context.

It has to beat rehashing the same arguments over and over again, right? And everyone has access to the Bible.

Anyone up for it?

[Prodigy54321]

I'm in...

a good christian friend of mine bought me a bible..I said I'd read it, but I never got around to doing more than looking for specific things [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[surftheiop]

King James version - Bad idea
Its a VERY crummy translation,

get the NIV

[ConstantineX]

I did this before when I was young (12ish), but I'm down for it again. I'd actually like to be able to quote Scripture.

[madnak]

The thing about the King James is that a lot of the phrases from it became part of our linguistic and literary heritage. But that's not the point, so we can go with another translation.

[DonkBluffer]

Is this the King James version you're talking about? It says it's 'with apocrypha' but is it the same book besides that?
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bible-Authorized...TF8&s=books

I tried to read it and it's pretty hard (I'm Dutch, but I can read normal English obv).

[Prodigy54321]

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King James version - Bad idea
Its a VERY crummy translation,

get the NIV

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I think we'd be better served reading the most common translation..(it is the KJ right?)

it depends on what our purpose is...

I'd think it would be to understand the bible as (most) christians know it

[surftheiop]

NIV is what the majority of christians know.
Problem with the KJ is it translates idioms literally so alot of stuff gets completly lost.

[NotReady]

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we read a Book of the King James version of the Holy Bible


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I will follow and contribute if you guys actually do this but don't want to commit due to time. I would highly recommend using the New American Standard version. I believe it's the English version that is closest to a true translation. KJV is beautifully written but much of the vocabulary is from the 16th (?) century.

I highly recommend The Bible Gateway as it has many translations and very good search engines - the NAS version is also heavily footnoted.

[surftheiop]

Yeah thats good too, but plz dont read KJ lol its not very good unless you happen to be a greek scholar and can see the things it translated oddly