Ten translations I have of the Bible, and announcing that I will be going through it, spelled out here
For the most part just the text will be read, only if i'm so inclined will I take the time to see if a note is worthwhile or just time wasting reference to some book out there and the pagination that i'd need a large library for and the whole afternoon to hunt down what's being cited. I'm actually thinking of people like Francis Turretin for things like that though.
1. KJV is such a classic, for literary merit alone, it's also still pretty popular having zealous defenders saying it's more than just a translation. With this text, I have Joel Beeke's editorialized The Reformation Heritage Study Bible, ... rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
2. ESV -- a lot of the study Bibles come with this translation and it's the one that is used at our church in the city. There 2 really good SB's with it, The ESV Study Bible, and RC Sproul's editorialized Reformation Study Bible, which has the most staunch Calvinist notes and Introductions and articles, plus it has all the creeds and catechisms of the Reformed tradition, Beeke's one does that too but here you also get the ecumenical creeds that came way before the Reformation.
3. NASB is my dad's fave, and I have The Life Application SB for this, not a Reformed minded treatment, but all in good fun, every single verse except dull genealogies have a lesson for you!
4. NIV -- this is the only version where I got through the whole text, there's a Reformed minded version called Grace & Truth, but I also have the more broadly evangelical NIV Study Bible, lots of notes in that sucker, won a damn award and everything!!
5. NLT -- dad likes this one too, and I have it as NLT Study Bible, a little like Life Application stuff.
6. CSB -- the Ancient Faith Study Bible with quotes from the Patristic people, scanty though, I'd rather just read Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome, Origen and so on.
7. NKJV -- the Cultural Background Study Bible focuses of Archeology stuff, with lots of pretty pictures, worth it to use the Kindle app to see them in color.
8. The Revised New Jerusalem Bible Study Edition -- with apocrypha so there's more to love.
9. The Catholic Study Bible (NAB) -- this might not be the top level Catholic scholarship in this one, but I gotta have something in this area.
10. The Orthodox Study Bible -- for the Old Testament it's the SAAS (St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint), speaking of that I might as well throw in here that there are editions of the Torah, Talmud, and Septuagint, plus a healthy sampling of Heretical texts from Gnosticism, the one called The Gnostic Bible, and the Nag Hammadi are the 2 best resources for that. And what's most neat is The Zohar, which are mystical commentaries on the Torah (Pentateuch). Nietzsche liked the Torah the most out of the Bible btw.
My re-emergence into this material must not be guided by Reformed theology, it has to be like back to basics, this Bible is at the root of much familial drama, I ought to have a proper brushing up on it all.
1. KJV is such a classic, for literary merit alone, it's also still pretty popular having zealous defenders saying it's more than just a translation. With this text, I have Joel Beeke's editorialized The Reformation Heritage Study Bible, ... rolls off the tongue doesn't it?
2. ESV -- a lot of the study Bibles come with this translation and it's the one that is used at our church in the city. There 2 really good SB's with it, The ESV Study Bible, and RC Sproul's editorialized Reformation Study Bible, which has the most staunch Calvinist notes and Introductions and articles, plus it has all the creeds and catechisms of the Reformed tradition, Beeke's one does that too but here you also get the ecumenical creeds that came way before the Reformation.
3. NASB is my dad's fave, and I have The Life Application SB for this, not a Reformed minded treatment, but all in good fun, every single verse except dull genealogies have a lesson for you!
4. NIV -- this is the only version where I got through the whole text, there's a Reformed minded version called Grace & Truth, but I also have the more broadly evangelical NIV Study Bible, lots of notes in that sucker, won a damn award and everything!!
5. NLT -- dad likes this one too, and I have it as NLT Study Bible, a little like Life Application stuff.
6. CSB -- the Ancient Faith Study Bible with quotes from the Patristic people, scanty though, I'd rather just read Tertullian, Ambrose, Jerome, Origen and so on.
7. NKJV -- the Cultural Background Study Bible focuses of Archeology stuff, with lots of pretty pictures, worth it to use the Kindle app to see them in color.
8. The Revised New Jerusalem Bible Study Edition -- with apocrypha so there's more to love.
9. The Catholic Study Bible (NAB) -- this might not be the top level Catholic scholarship in this one, but I gotta have something in this area.
10. The Orthodox Study Bible -- for the Old Testament it's the SAAS (St. Athanasius Academy Septuagint), speaking of that I might as well throw in here that there are editions of the Torah, Talmud, and Septuagint, plus a healthy sampling of Heretical texts from Gnosticism, the one called The Gnostic Bible, and the Nag Hammadi are the 2 best resources for that. And what's most neat is The Zohar, which are mystical commentaries on the Torah (Pentateuch). Nietzsche liked the Torah the most out of the Bible btw.
My re-emergence into this material must not be guided by Reformed theology, it has to be like back to basics, this Bible is at the root of much familial drama, I ought to have a proper brushing up on it all.
46-50, M
