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View Poll Results: Which Bible version do you use? | |
Revised Standard Version (Either Protestant edition or Catholic edition)
|     | 14 | 14.89% | |
Douay-Rheims
|    | 1 | 1.06% | |
King James Version or New King James Version
|    | 38 | 40.43% | |
Jerusalem Bible or New Jerusalem Bible
|    | 7 | 7.45% | |
New American Standard Version
|    | 29 | 30.85% | |
English Standard Version
|    | 21 | 22.34% | |
New International Version (or NIrV, TNIV, etc)
| | 25 | 26.60% | |
The Message
| | 5 | 5.32% | |
New Living Translation
| | 9 | 9.57% | |
Some other Bible version/translation
| | 27 | 28.72% |
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24th September 2009, 06:02 AM
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24th September 2009, 06:06 AM
| | Ave Maria Gratia Plena
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Reps: 233,147,813,510,988,768 (power: 233,147,813,511,065) | | Out of the poll options, I use the Revised Standard Version - Catholic Edition, Douay-Rheims, and the New Jerusalem Bible. I also use the New American Bible.  |
25th September 2009, 06:21 AM
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Reps: 481,213,167,237,329,856 (power: 481,213,167,237,361) | | | Mostly ESV and New Jerusalem.
You've missed out NRSV, which is a hugely popular version in mainline protestant and catholic circles.
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25th September 2009, 06:33 AM
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Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling..... be glory, majesty, dominion and authority for ever. (Jude)
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25th September 2009, 07:22 PM
|  | Non-Metaphysical Christian Critic
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Reps: 95,798,172,692,379,840 (power: 95,798,172,692,383) | | | It's amazing to me that the ESV has become so popular. I remember ordering it when it first came out, and how happy I was with it. It's really quite a balanced translation -- balanced between accessibility and accuracy, I mean.
Or maybe it's just the name. "OOoooh, the STANDARD for English! I've gotta get that one! (And who is King James, anyway?)"
If the JPS had been up there, I would have picked that, although naturally it excludes the NT. But I've never found a really good NT translation.
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Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,
Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,
Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire
Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless.
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25th September 2009, 08:00 PM
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Reps: 481,213,167,237,329,856 (power: 481,213,167,237,361) | | Originally Posted by ittarter  It's amazing to me that the ESV has become so popular. I remember ordering it when it first came out, and how happy I was with it. It's really quite a balanced translation -- balanced between accessibility and accuracy, I mean.
Or maybe it's just the name. "OOoooh, the STANDARD for English! I've gotta get that one! (And who is King James, anyway?)"
I like the literary quality of the language in the ESV. I suspect its quite traditional sound helps make it popular.
I also like the tendency to translate the same word or phrase the same way in different places. At some points that may be at the cost of accuracy, but it helps make the connections between different texts that are there in the original languages but get lost in (say) the NRSV which translates each passage independently.
It may be my imagination, or maybe Packer's influence, but it also comes across to me as less American (as opposed to British) in its English usage than most other mainstream translations.
The two reasons I like the New Jerusalem are the literary quality and the British English usage.
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26th September 2009, 12:40 PM
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27th September 2009, 06:14 AM
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Reps: 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 (power: 9,223,372,036,854,792) | | King James Version die hard. |
28th September 2009, 05:52 PM
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Reps: 256,891,389,001,535,712 (power: 256,891,389,001,542) | | | I use the NIV primarily, but I also use the NRSV and the JB. I grew up reading the KJV, and still use it when I read Psalms. |
28th September 2009, 08:44 PM
|  | Every Day I'm Shufflin
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Reps: 83,019,311,874,560,624 (power: 83,019,311,874,567) | | | KJV, NIV and HCSB | | |
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