does any one know if its possible to get the un edited books of the bible?

Question

im talkin about like a pure translation,not intervened nor edited by a church?im not hatin,im jus sayin the most common bibles have been edited for what ever reason,im not getting into that, i wanna know if theres jus a translation from what ever langauge its written in(don't tell me what language its written in either, i don't care,thats not my question) to english?does it have a website?

Answer 1

Try but it do not come in book form. Read a Quran or a translation has not changed in over 1400 years when God first sent it down to us through Muhammad (pbah)

Answer 2

You are looking for what doesn't exist. The New Testament in particular is the result of thousands of redactions over many, many centuries and is cobbled together from thousands of contradictory and incomplete texts, some as small as a postage stamp. Thus, there never was a single, complete version of any book, from which all other versions were copied, and a "pure" translation does not, nor ever could, exist.

Additionally, it is not possible to translate one language into another perfectly, as one language will contain words, phrases, concepts, slang, colloquialisms, etc., that simply are not found in the other, and vice-versa. I work with some Navahos, and listening to them speak to each other in their own language is interesting. They often throw in English words at random because there is no equivalent in Navaho. So it is with Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, or any other language--all the linguist can do is try and come up with a close match if an exact one doesn't exist.

However, there are some online sources for different Bible translations. The one I use most is Bible Gateway (link below). It has many versions available and you can compare several translations all at once. Young's Literal Translation might be close to what you're looking for. If there's a translation you want that isn't listed there, you can go to Google and search for it.

Another site I use a lot is the Blue Letter Bible, which is basically a concordance in which you can look up the definitions of the Hebrew and Greek words. I use this when I want to clarify what a word or phrase means in the language in which it was written.

Answer 3

If you look up the masorectic texts orthe qumran texts you might get what you're looking for. Try www.bibletexts.com.
Oh, the way texts are checked for alteration is by comparison...the masoretic text is from 700-100o A.D. and lines up with the qumran text is from 30 B.C.-A.D. 70. If you take texts from various dates and compare them, alterations become clear in the newer texts and can be corrected.
Here's an excerpt from the glossary from bibletexts.com :
"The texts from Qumran are dated roughly between the end of the third century b.c. and a.d. 70. The Hebrew and Aramaic documents were written in four basic scripts, which permit their palaeographic dating (within a fifty-year margin of error): Archaic Script (end of the third century to 150 b.c.); Hasmonean (150-50 b.c.); Herodian (50 b.c. to a.d. 40); and Ornamental (mid-first century a.d. on), a form also used in the Murabba‘at texts. The majority of the Qumran texts are in the Hasmonean and Herodian scripts, as are those of Masada. The Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts of Murabba‘at date roughly from between the two Jewish revolts against Rome (a.d. 66-70 and 132-135). According to preliminary reports, the texts from H\ever, S\eÕelim, and Mihras apparently come from that same period, but they have not yet been published. The texts from Khirbet Mird are of later date (roughly fifth to eighth centuries a.d.); the Arabic texts and a few Christian Palestinian Aramaic fragments found there have been published."

Answer 4

Buy a Jewish Bible. All of them have the original Hebrew alongside the translation and commentary. It's a much richer text when read in Hebrew! Beautiful poetry as well as descriptive wording.
You will never find a truly unedited version of any Bible if you don't care to learn the language.

Answer 5

The oldest known bible to exist was written in the 4th Century.

It is called the "Codex Sinaiticus" and most people would not recognize it as a bible if they saw it. That is the "purest translation" that you are going to find.


Additional:

There are no books of the bible currently in existence, edited or otherwise. Other than the Codex Sinaiticus which is not written in "books" nor is it recognizable as a bible.

Answer 6

You can get relatively unedited books of what you know as the Old Testament. For obvious reasons I'd recommend versions published by Jewish sources - it is, after all, their book.

As to what Christians think of as the "New Testament," all bets are off. No one has any idea who wrote most of the original Gospel text, even if they attribute it to Matthew, Mark, Luke & John. It's likely Paul did write a lot of what's attributed to him, but even then you have to remember that Roman authorities decided what would be in it some hundreds of years after the events.

So, aside from the Old Testament, I think you're going to have to take it on "faith" that ther rest is "pure."

Answer 7

well, every Bible was translated from Greek or Hebrew (Aramaic?). I know, not your question.

i don't know this, but it seems to me that all the translations have been done by some church/religion or another, because, no insult to anyone, who else would care enough to do the work?

http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/index.php?action=getVersionInfo&vid=15&lang=2
sounds a lot like what you are looking for. No guarantees.

http://www.bible-researcher.com/links02.html

gives you descriptions of each English translation.
Maybe one of them will sound like what you are looking for.

Answer 8

There is just one Book that's not in fact edited by the human being but The God Himself, and that's The Holy Quran.

Answer 9

It's not possible. It was translated by monks many years ago, by hand (thus making the possibility of errors much greater). Also, there are many other books that should/could have been in our Bible, but thanks to 'voting' by priests, they were dismissed. Hope that answers your question.

Answer 10

Try asking in Church.
The King James version is all I need.