2007-01-12 06:48:27 · 6 answers · asked by erickallen101 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The King James Version of the Bible has about six or seven books thrown out of it, I believe. I know the Book of Macabees in the Old Testament, is one.
Because people didn't like some of the beliefs that God presented to them in the Bibile, they figured if they throw them out then they would no longer have to follow those beliefs! I guess they thought maybe God wouldn't notice??!
2007-01-12 06:59:09 · answer #1 · answered by Bec P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm on the other side of this -- not sure about KJV, but the Orthodox Bible has not yet been entirely translated into English (The New Testament has, and the Old Testament is on its way). The reason is the religion did not start its rise in English-as-a-first-language Americans until recently.
The Greek Bible or Septuagint is what the Orthodox use the world over. It's an earlier version than any of the English Bibles based their translations on.
Here's a snippet from www.orthodoxwiki.org:
Judaism's Bible is often referred to as the Tanakh, or Hebrew Bible, which includes the sacred texts common to both the Christian and Jewish canons.[1] The Christian Bible is also called the Holy Bible, Scriptures, or Word of God. The Roman Catholic, Anglican Church and Eastern Orthodox Old Testament canons contain books not found in the Tanakh, but which were found in the Greek Septuagint.
More than 14,000 manuscripts and fragments of the Hebrew Tanakh exist, as do numerous copies of the Septuagint, and 5,300 manuscripts of the Greek New Testament, more than any other work of antiquity.[2]
2007-01-14 09:39:51 · answer #2 · answered by andy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the Orthodox church is mostly in Asia, the Orthodox Bible(s) are in Russian, or modern Greek, or other languages. While the King James Bible, having been translated in Britain, is in English.
All of the translations are made from the same set of Hebrew and Greek texts. They contain the same books and if compared would have the same meanings. Just in different languages.
2007-01-12 06:52:56 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about the orthodox bible, but the KJV is a dynamic translation from the 1600's. A dynamic translation being one that is translated into the language spoken by the ordinary people of the time. This makes it a similiar translation type as the NIV, but without the strict quality control.
2007-01-12 06:54:22 · answer #4 · answered by Pirate AM™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Orthodox Bible is printed in GREEK.
The KJV is in English!
Maybe you should re phrase that question == PLEASE!.
2007-01-12 06:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
$10.95
2007-01-12 06:51:48 · answer #6 · answered by jrtoyboy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋