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who excised errors from the bible-and this was done in the last 30 yrs.

2007-03-12 19:20:22 · 3 answers · asked by Joyce C 1 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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what dub was talking about was the 'Jesus Seminars,' and is completely different from what you're asking.

For info on the Jesus Seminars go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar

However, I ... and a heck of a lot of scholars ... take issue with the Seminars. The reason is their choice of what makes a passage authentic or unauthentic. For instance, they say that anything in which Jesus refers to himself is unauthentic ... yet they've never really explained why.
There is much to be desired with this.

As for your question ... there is no bible that has completely excised translation errors. It is impossible to do so.

What you have to understand is that Corinthian Greek (what they new testament was originally written in) has many many words for the same thing. There are ... depending on who you ask ... between 5 and 8 different words for 'love' for instance.

The King James Version of the New Testament has a vocabulary of about 8,000 words. The NIV has a vocabulary of about 9,500. The Corinthian Greek New Testament has a vocabulary of over 32,000 words!

So ... there will never be an English bible that is without translation errors. We can get across the meanings, we can get across the basic ideas ... but we just can't do it word for word. It is grammatically, and structurally impossible.

2007-03-12 19:55:08 · answer #1 · answered by Angry Moogle 2 · 0 0

From memory (and I mean I haven't researched this answer AT ALL) these different christian denominations convened and what they actually did was limit about only 2 verses as being "spoken by Jesus". Some bibles have the words of Jesus printed in red, these bibles have taken most of that out and conclude that it can only be claimed that Jesus a limited 2 alleged verses but I'm not sure what these are. This might be enough info for you to find out though.

2007-03-12 19:31:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

I'm not sure, but the commonly
used, and most popular is the revised King James version.
The Gideon Bible was used world wide, and written in 1899.
Both, I am sure, contain errors
of one type or another. (It's the way people comprehend what is written.) (A comparison on religions was done just a few years ago, well done might I add, and I am trying to find it.)

2007-03-12 19:55:19 · answer #3 · answered by V B 5 · 0 0

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