If the translations are not from KJV, where are they from?
2007-05-16 09:29:20 · 4 answers · asked by bikerchickjill 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I just had to respond to 'Hey Ray's' answer.
There are no originals. They were in the Alexandrian Library which (many scholars believe) Nero burned. The Septuagint were the first seventy copies of the first five books of the OT; the Dead Sea Scrolls have some of the same books as the Old Testament but others that contradict the stories we have; We don't have originals of the New Testament, either. A Council (Council of Nicaea) was brought together in the 3rd or 4th century under Constantine's command and the council members decided then what books were to go in the NT-the rest are the Gnostic Gospels
2007-05-16 09:48:50 · answer #1 · answered by strpenta 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
is this a joke?
That would be really sad if someone made a translation from the kjv. That would be a translation of a translation of a translation.
The thing would look terrible.
2007-05-16 16:32:45 · answer #2 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure they are translated from the original manuscripts. Hebrew (manily) for the old Testament, found in the dead sea scrolls, the septegant (sorry for the spelling) and the copies thereof, and Greek/Aramaic/Hebrew for the New Testament found in the manuscripts.
2007-05-16 16:36:59 · answer #3 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some were done from the KJV. Most modern ones use the 'Biblica Hebracia' and the E.N. 'Novum Testamentum Graece".
2007-05-16 16:36:30 · answer #4 · answered by johnnywalker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋