Bible Translations
My favorites are the NIV, New International Version, and HCSB, Holman Christian Standard Bible.NIV: easy modern English reading, less formal.
HCSB: easy modern English reading, more formal.
Let me show you what I mean by transparency:
- From the HCSB
The textual base for the New Testament [NT] is the Nestle-Aland Novum Testamentum Graece, 27th edition, and the United Bible Societies' Greek New Testament, 4th corrected edition. The text for the Old Testament [OT] is the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia, 5th edition.
Significant differences among Hebrew [Hb] and Aramaic [Aram] manuscripts of the OT or among Greek [Gk] manuscripts of the NT are indicated in footnotes. In a few NT cases large square brackets indicate texts that are omitted in some ancient manuscripts. The HCSB® uses the traditional verse divisions found in most Protestant Bibles in English.
Notice that they transparently note differences in manuscripts, and do not hide them. It is open for critical thinking and review.
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