What bible translations does our church accept?

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• minasoliman

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  You're exaggerating. It's not a billion, just a few million. Learn Koine and read that :P...
  
  Seriously though, they all have weaknesses, but I heard for the most part the top 3 are NKJV, NIV, and RSV. There is also the NAB (Catholic Bible), although Catholics also like the RSV and used that for another Catholic Bible (which is also called the ASV). If you are really patient, the "old" or original KJV, because it follows a literal translation in many places, whereas the NKJV interprets those phrases in modern easy-to-understand uses. The Orthodox Study Bible (OSB) uses the NKJV, but there is a "Greek Orthodox Bible" (only New Testament though) somewhere that some Orthodox seem to like better than the OSB, because it sometimes will transliterate and anglicanize some Greek words used so as not to lose some original focus they're trying to portray (like the word "liturgize" in the book of Acts 13, rather than the vague word "minister"):
  
  http://www.orthodox-church.info/eob/
  
  So that's been my experience. Many priests and bishops would generally agree on this I think. There is no officially endorsed translation by the Church, but this has been generally recommended. But always supplement your Bible study with the Fathers, as they will reveal to you how they understood it and what translation is proper in the context.
• mabsoota

  October 2014

  many churches use new king james Bible.

  but it lacks some of the old testament books.

  
  

  the best complete Bible currently available is:

  http://www.thomasnelson.com/the-orthodox-study-bible

  
  

  i am reading it, and our priest has given it out to some of the church servants

  :-)

  
  

  if you are doing a PhD in theology, it will not be sufficient!

  but if you want to know basic orthodox Christian theology, it is the best.
• minasoliman

  October 2014

  I also found this:
  
  http://dce.oca.org/resource/272/
  
  These seems to be an article written before the OSB
• [Deleted User]

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  Okay maybe not billions, but there's not one source that says there's millions either so....

  
  

  :P
  

  
  

  minasoliman said:

  I also found this:
  
  http://dce.oca.org/resource/272/
  
  These seems to be an article written before the OSB

  This was an interesting read, it's strange how they didn't mention the NKJV tho. But a very good summary of the what's and why's,

  
  

  
  

  
  

  Mabsoota, the orthodox bible seems to be alot different, like doesn't it have extra books to it that aren't found in any other translation?
• mabsoota

  October 2014

  no, they are just the deuterocanonical books that every orthodox church accepts but which are not found in protestant sponsored Bible translations.

  
  

  any orthodox Bible has them in any language translation.