which version of holy bible is suit for me?

i am a chinese university student in peking,graduate,i major in internation rilations, i am quite interest in west culture and literature, so firstly i plan to read holy boble,but i dont know which version is suit for me. any advice ,please?

thank you for your answer.a few days ago my tutor told me that if i want to known the west culture and literature deeply,i should learn about Christian religion first.then is my tutor wrong?

thank you for your answer.a few days ago my tutor told me that if i want to known the west culture and literature deeply,i should learn about Christian religion first.then is my tutor wrong?

The book was commonly known as the Buggre Alle This Bible. The lengthy compositor's error,
if such it may be called, occurs in the book of Ezekiel, chapter 48, verse five.


2. And bye the border of Dan, fromme the east side to the west side,
a portion for Afher.

3. And bye the border of Afher, fromme the east side even untoe the
west side, a portion for Naphtali.

4. And bye the border of Naphtali, from the east side untoe the west
side, a portion for Manaffeh.

5. Buggre Alle this for a Larke. I amme sick to mye Hart of typefettinge.
Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges noe more than a tighte
fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone
withe half an oz. of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Sunneshain, ane nott
Stucke here alle the liuelong daie in thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workfhoppe.
@ *"AE@;!*

6. And bye the border of Ephraim, from the east fide even untoe the west fide,
a portion for Reuben.*

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* The Buggre Alle This Bible was also noteworthy for having twenty-seven verses
in the third chapter of Genesis, instead of the more usual twenty-four.
They followed verse 24, which in the King James version reads:
"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden
Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the
tree of life," and read:

25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying
Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?
26 And the Angel said, I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it
down some where, forget my own head next.
27 And the Lord did not ask him again.

i am a chinese university student in peking,graduate,i major in internation rilations, i am quite interest in west culture and literature, so firstly i plan to read holy boble,but i dont know which version is suit for me. any advice ,please?

William Wen wrote:

i am a chinese university student in peking,graduate,i major in internation rilations, i am quite interest in west culture and literature, so firstly i plan to read holy boble,but i dont know which version is suit for me. any advice ,please?

Hi William and welcome to the forum,

So there are many versions of the Bible.

In Islam, we do not have this issue, as there is a one and only Arabic version of the Holy Qur'an.

Greetings.

muslim1

This is an interesting artical.

Differences in Bible translations
Bible translations: Approaches.
As Hebrew and Greek, the original languages of the Bible, have idioms and concepts not easily translated, there is an on going critical tension about whether it is better to give a word for word translation or to give a translation that gives a parallel idiom in the target language. For instance, in the English language Catholic translation, the New American Bible, as well as the Protestant translations of the Christian Bible, translations like the King James Version, the New Revised Standard Version and the New American Standard Bible are seen as literal translations (or "word for word"), whereas translations like the New International Version and New Living Version attempt to give relevant parallel idioms. The Living Bible and The Message are two paraphrases of the Bible that try to convey the original meaning in contemporary language. The further away one gets from word to word translation, the text becomes easier to read while relying more on the theological, linguistic or cultural understanding of the translator, which one would not normally expect a lay reader to require.


Inclusive language
Traditionally, English masculine pronouns have been used interchangeably to refer to the male gender and to all people. For instance, "All men are mortal" is not intended to imply that males are mortal but females are immortal. English language readers and hearers have had to interpret masculine pronouns (and such words as "man" and "mankind") based on context. Further, both Hebrew and Greek, like some of the Latin-origin languages, use the male gender of nouns and pronouns to refer to groups that contain both sexes. This creates some difficulty in determining whether a noun or pronoun should be translated using terms that refer to men only, or generically to men and women inclusively. Context sometimes, but not always, helps determine whether to decode them in a gender-insensitive or gender-specific way.

Contemporary language has changed in many cases to reflect criticism of the use of the masculine gender, which has been characterized as discriminatory. Current style guides, such as APA, MLA, NCTE, and others, have published statements encouraging, and in some cases requiring, the use of inclusive language, which avoids language this approach regards as sexist or class-distinctive.

Until recently, virtually all English translations of the Bible have used masculine nouns and pronouns both specifically (to refer to males) and generically (when the reference is not necessarily gender-specific). Recent examples of translations which incorporate gender-inclusive language include the New Revised Standard Version, the Revised English Bible, and Today's New International Version.