christians do you think the english bible is accurate?What launguage is the bible originally in ?And what?

Question

country is the bible from?

Answer 1

The Biblical scrolls were written in Hebrew and Greek. They were translated into Latin by the Roman Catholic Church and then into English by King James of England . The Holy Scriptures have been retranslated into just about all languages and in several different formats. Its a good idea to have a way to refer back to the original languages when studying so as to get the concept and context correct.

Answer 2

The Old Testament was written in Hebrew (with a couple sections near the end in Aramaic, a "newer" Hebrew based language)
The New Testament was written in Koine Greek.

The Bible has 66 different smaller books inside of it. They were all written in or near the Middle East. Of the 40+ authors, all but two were Jewish.

Is it accurate? If you look at the New Testament, there are about 2,300 manuscripts of the New Testament books that date from the first 200 years of their existence. Another 7,500+ exist from that time (around 250AD) to the invention of the printing press in the mid 1400s.

The earliest of the NT manuscripts are often in fragments due to their age. So some are no more than a single page, or fragment from a page. While others are nearly complete. Such as a collection of all 13 of Paul's letters from which scholars can reconstruct about 72% of the words. (And are working on the rest). Or a manuscript of John where 809 of the 893 verses are readable (and again, they are working on the rest). Some of the manuscripts date to with 20-40 years of when the originals were penned. One manuscript of John appears to date from 17 years after the original.

When compared, these manuscripts agree with each other word for word 99.7% of the time. Of the 0.3% disagreement, the majority is a different spelling of the same word, or a reversal of two words (usually Christ Jesus instead of Jesus Christ).

Because all of there manuscripts are hand copied, many of them will contain same kind of a "scribe's error". Meaning the y misspell a word, skip a word, miss a whole line, etc. But with 2,300 manuscripts to compare, it is easy to detect such errors. If you have 2,299 manuscripts which say the same thing, and one this is missing a line, odds are that the 1 was a mistake, not the 2,299.

Comparing these manuscripts, scholars have produced a standard Greek manuscript that is used by all Bible translators. They do NOT translate from earlier versions, but all go back and translate from the same Greek texts. This prevents the errors that would come from translating a translation of a translation of a translation.

Are the English translation accurate? As accurate as any translation can be. It will never be possible to change something from one language to another and be 100% correct. There are difference in grammar and word meaning. The Greek have three different words for "love" for example. Or Hebrew is written right to left, not left to right like English. So some adjustment have to be made for readability.

You will find some translations (like the New American Standard) that are very very strict and accurate, but sometimes hard to read. While others, like the New International Version, will sacrifice a little bit of the accuracy to get a more readable and understandable translation. So the accuracy of the English version depends on which version you are talking about.

If you want to know how accurate the English versions of the Bible are, get 4 or 5 of them and place them side by side. (Or use a site like http://biblegateway.com which lets you see multiple versions). Compare them and you will find that the difference in the translations is normally a difference in "style", not a difference in meaning, or doctrine.

Answer 3

+ There are over 100 English translations of the Bible. Some translations are better than others.

+ The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew. The New Testament was originally written in Greek with a bit of Aramaic.

+ The Bible comes from the country of the Israelites.

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Hebrew
Syriac
Aramaic
Greek

Not Coptic - this is not a "language, as much as a dialect of Egyptian" so to speak and it is a belief system - a false one.

Most of the bible was written in what is now part of Israel but Revelations was written by John while on the island of Patmos and it is difficult to discern exactly where Paul was when he wrote his letters(Epistles) to different congregations.
Moses was not allowed in the promised land so most of his writing was written while the 12 tribes were wandering the Sinai Peninsula.
Peace -C

Answer 5

The bible is highly accurate. There is no work of antiquity that has been more preserved than the new testament and the old. It is written in many languages and on many forms. From animal skins to papyrus to wax on wood and carving in cement/concrete with a sharp object. It is written in a number of languages the earliest manuscripts being greek. there are thousands of copies in the greek and other languages then later latin.

Answer 6

The books of the bible were originally written in greek and aramaic (sp?).

The country of origin of the bible is not a valid question, since the countries that existed back then do not exist today. However, you may assume that the general region of the Middle East is the origin.

Answer 7

The Bible is not from a "country" especially Paul's letters which were written from a host of different places.

Answer 8

It was originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, Coptic and Greek (NT).

All the stories of the Old Testament, plays off in ancient Israel and Egipt. However other surrounding countries are also mentioned. The book of Acts and Paul's letters mentions the travellings of Paul and all the places where his been.

Answer 9

The Old testament is in Hebrew. The New Testament is in Greek. It's important to note that Jesus didn't preach to the common folk in Greek, but in Aramaic, so even that is a translation.

Answer 10

You are speaking of the Bible as if it was together all this time, and it wasn't. The Bible was brought together.

Here are the authors of the Bible's books and when they were probably written:
http://www.theology.edu/faq01.htm