Regarding the Holy Bible.....?

Question

Is there an "original" Holy Bible? There is the King James Version and the Catholic Bible, but is there an English translation of the original Bible? One that is not modified to a particular religion?

Answer 1

hmmm... interesting. I'm waiting for the answers too.

Answer 2

The Bible is not Holy, only the knowledge it imparts. The King James Version, which may have been named the Queen Elisabeth, if she hadn't died before it was completed, is a condensed versiopns of five other Bibles that was being used in England at the time. She wanted to bring uniformity to the Church of England. Unfortunately, it has over 20,000 translation errors, though most relates to God's name.

Every place where the title LORD is in capitalized letters, is where God's name was replaced. As Christians fell into superstitions, they feared that should the Bible be dropped and got dirt in between the pages, that God's name would be defiled, so they replaced it with LORD. The worse error related to the Trinity. Whole scriptures were added at the time it was beign created to help clarify in the minds of those who were confused by the Trinity.

There is only one Bible recognized by the Library of Congress as being a translation, but people don't like it because it doesn't follow pre-conceived beliefs. The New International Version was advertised to be an English translation, when it came out in the 70s, but it didn't meet the requirements to be a translation, thus the name. They did do pretty well with it, but kept the word LORD and translated the Greek word for presence as coming, any time to made reference to the second presence of Christ.

The oldest scrolls date back only to the third century and are held by the Vatican. The Dead Sea Scrolls are not scriptural in nature, but confirms much of what is found in the scrolls held by the Vatican.

Every Bible has much truth to it, you just have to get past the errors. This is one good reason for also having a Greek Interlinear Translation.

Answer 3

Supposedly there was a Bible study underground in Whales by 2 or 4 AD. It was founded by the man who gave up his tomb for Jesus.

Not sure if the translation exists or not.

It would be in Saxony, probably

I think the oldest know bibles that are complete are the ones that came from Constantine.

The Greek Orthodox church may have some older ones.

Old testament material from like 30 BC is available from Jewish sources.

There are complete chapters of all Biblical materails translated into English on the internet.

Infancy 1, Infancy 2, Romans 2, Romans 3

These books were purdged by Constatine in 3 AD

YOu can also find the books purdged between KJV 1 and KJV 2

There are some Greek lexicons, but these generally are fitted to English bibles that exist.

You're going to have to piece things together.

There was so much poltiicing and so much censorship that a "definative" bible is hard to find.

There are some bibles that claim to be the "bible Jesus Read"

I sat down with 7 bibles and started at page 1. The text differences were minimal, except for the "living word bible" which I threw out quickly as being way too off base.

Answer 4

The Holy Bible is here today from the Original Autographs, which were written on parchment paper, or some such, in Biblical times. Since paper won't last forever, these Autographs are no longer around. Jewish Scribes devoted their time and attention to these Originals, and over the years, they faithfully copied them down, so we have the Books of the Bible today, which are believed to be inspired by God ... the Scriptures are His Word to us and for us.
I've read that The King James was first translated in 1611 in English but have also heard there were earlier Bibles translated in English, so you'd have to research this some more.... there is a whole lot about this subject.
God is Holy and so is His Word. The Catholic Bible is different in ways, and I think they include the Apocropha in theirs .. which are books that are not considered to be holy inspired by God, but stories by men.

Answer 5

By taking the copies of the oldest manuscripts available and comparing them, we can come up with a master text that is like the original.

Yes there is an english bible that is unbias and accurate.

Please read these quotes:

Old Testament:
In fact, the New World Translation is a scholarly work. In 1989, Professor Benjamin Kedar of Israel said:
"In my linguistic research in connection with the Hebrew Bible and translation, I often refer to the English edition as what is known as the New World Translation. In doing so, I find my feeling repeatedly confirmed that this kind of work reflects an honest endeavor to achieve an understanding of the text that is as accurate as possible. Giving evidence of a broad command of the original language, it renders the original words into a second language understandably without deviating unnecessarily from the specific structure of the Hebrew....Every statement of language allows for a certain latitude in interpreting or translating. So the linguistic solution in any given case may be open to debate. But I have never discovered in the New World Translation any biased intent to read something into the text that it does not contain."

New Testament:

While critical of some of its translation choices, BeDuhn called the New World Translation a “remarkably good” translation, “better by far” and “consistently better” than some of the others considered. Overall, concluded BeDuhn, the New World Translation “is one of the most accurate English translations of the New Testament currently available” and “the most accurate of the translations compared.”—Truth in Translation: Accuracy and Bias in English Translations of the New Testament.

“Here at last is a comprehensive comparison of nine major translations of the Bible:
King James Version,
New American Standard Bible,
New International Version,
New Revised Standard Version,
New American Bible,
Amplified Bible,
Today's English Version (Good News Bible),
Living Bible,
and the New World Translation.

The book provides a general introduction to the history and methods of Bible translation, and gives background on each of these versions. Then it compares them on key passages of the New Testament to determine their accuracy and identify their bias. Passages looked at include:

John 1:1; John 8:58; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 1:15-20; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8; 2 Peter 1:1

Jason BeDuhn
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair
Department of Humanities, Arts, and Religion
Northern Arizona University


Example: Phil 2:6

"did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, "

Did you know that the greek word this bible translate as grasped,

literally means, robbery, rape, or plunder.

So Paul is really saying that Jesus did not try to steal from his Father, the way Adam and Satan did.

Answer 6

If you download the e-Sword software from the Free Stuff page @ http://web.express56.com/~bromar/ you can look at the KJV Bible with Strong's numbers and see the original Greek and Hebrew words just by running your mouse pointer over the numbers next to the words. You can also download many other versions of the Bible for free including Jewish publications and compare what they have translated from the original Scriptures. The problem with there being an "original" is that there are different texts that are used to create a modern translation. For the most part the texts are in agreement with each other but some have verses that are not included in other texts and things like that.

Answer 7

Not exactly like you're asking, but there are many different English translations. Check out the Jewish Publication Society translation of the Old Testament, the Tanakh; or try something like the New Living Translation. Most translations claim to be taken directly-from-original languages, unless they say they are a "paraphrase" ("The Living Bible" and "The Message" are just paraphrases -- stay away from them for accuracy).

Answer 8

No, the closest to an original bible is the individual scrolls that the widely varied people who wrote the bible made. There was a big convention about a thousand years ago, where they got together and decided which works would be included and which would not. The ones they threw out became the apocrypha.
Like any work done by a comittee, the bible came out a hodge podge of various works, missing some good parts completely, and having repeats elsewhere. This is why the first four books of the bible are so much the same, it was a big political compromise.

Answer 9

Neither the King James version nor the translations used in the Catholic Church are "modified to a particular religion". Both are reliable, accurate translations originally made from very early texts, though not from the "original" documents, which have been lost.

Answer 10

As far as the Old Testament - read the English translation of the Jewish Bible - The Torah. AS far as the New Testament, there are original copies/scrolls. Some are in the Museum in Israel. The others , I believe are in Europe, maybe @ Vatican, but I do know that there is original documentation of the entire Bible. If I have time I will come back after researching and pulling out some old study notes I have.

Answer 11

You are not an idiot for asking. If you ever study ancient languages, you will find that even the best of scholars still argue about the best way to translate a particular passage. Also, everybody who translates approaches with some amount of bias. It's just a part of the human condition. Ancient languages do not have the same structure as modern languages, making it very difficult to ascertain the intended meaning. The translations of the text of the Bible represent a consensus of opinion among scholars. That is the best anybody is going to get.