Nostalgia. Christians only: What was the first version of the Bible you ever read?

JesusLovesOurLady said:

Be very careful with the NAB footnotes though, they are very, shall we say, untraditional.

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They're pretty scary. I'll stick with the footnotes on the Ignatius Bible.

TuxAme said:

They're pretty scary. I'll stick with the footnotes on the Ignatius Bible.

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I am very impressed with the Ignatius Study Bible. And the RSVCE text behind it. While the RSV is not perfect, it's solid in the CE.

Michie said:

I realize for Catholics this might be a bit foreign but I'm a convert. I read the Bible for the first time at 14 and still cherish that version out of nostalgia. It was the 'Good News Bible' a very traumatic period on my life so it holds a special place in my heart. What was the first Bible you read?

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A picture Bible, like a giant comic book. I still love those to this day.

JesusLovesOurLady said:

Be very careful with the NAB footnotes though, they are very, shall we say, untraditional.

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It then revolves around how one measures tradition.

faroukfarouk said:

It then revolves around how one measures tradition.

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You would have to know something about those particular footnotes. There are far better Bibles available now for Catholics, including the Ignatius Study Bible, which has notes that are sound.

Michie said:

I started with the NT and followed with the OT. A much gentler and kinder way to see the types and shadows within Scripture.

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I did the same, and also with the Good News Bible. I think I started reading passages every night around age 12 or so, I continued that practice into my late 20s and probably made it cover-to-cover 4 or 5 times. I haven’t read it much since and forgot a lot of what I knew.

Michie said:

I realize for Catholics this might be a bit foreign but I'm a convert. I read the Bible for the first time at 14 and still cherish that version out of nostalgia. It was the 'Good News Bible' a very traumatic period on my life so it holds a special place in my heart. What was the first Bible you read?

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My mom moved me from picture book Bible stories to the King James Bible (reading the gospels) when I was five. Throughout my childhood, this was the version I memorized. It may be an inferior version, and I no longer study with it, but it is sentimental to me, and it is the version I pray with, the version that comes to my mind in the darkness of night.

JesusLovesOurLady said:

Be very careful with the NAB footnotes though, they are very, shall we say, untraditional.

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Forget the footnotes. The NAB translation is AMAZING. It is the only translation I am aware of that strictly uses the Masoretic (Hebrew text) for the OT and doesn't mix in the Septuagint (which is a Greek translation, and makes the other versions inferior translations of translations).

I didn't become Christian in the real sense till I was 28 (Presbyterian). When I got around to it, I think the first Bible I read cover to cover was the New International Version (NIV) with a blue soft cover.

It was a deliberate project so that I could at least say I had read the Bible. I read 3 chapters a day till I'd finished.

This was a Protestant version, so it didn't have the Apocrypha. I read them later in the NRSV Catholic Bible I was given when I was inducted into the church.

MikeK said:

I did the same, and also with the Good News Bible. I think I started reading passages every night around age 12 or so, I continued that practice into my late 20s and probably made it cover-to-cover 4 or 5 times. I haven’t read it much since and forgot a lot of what I knew.

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I bounced around a lot. I kept a record of which books I read in the table of contents. That helped me go to the books I hadn't yet read and helped me see which ones I read the most. Ecclesiastes was a clear favorite. Genesis ad John and James high on the list of multiple reads too. The Apocalypse I stayed away from for the longest time.

Bible storys for children...i loved that book no idea where it went... i have another similar book but its not the same

faroukfarouk said:

It then revolves around how one measures tradition.

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Orthodoxy would be the measure- and too many of the footnotes fall short.

TuxAme said:

Orthodoxy would be the measure- and too many of the footnotes fall short.

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Good to let the text of Scripture interpret itself; this is how Renaissance scholars sought out word meanings, according to their textual context.

faroukfarouk said:

Good to let the text of Scripture interpret itself; this is how Renaissance scholars sought out word meanings, according to their textual context.

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I'm not so sure that was the entire Renaissance method.

chevyontheriver said:

I'm not so sure that was the entire Renaissance method.

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Historical-grammatical interpretation came out of the way Renaissance scholars studied the meaning of words in their context. This also profoundly influence modern science.

Just read the NAB. If you're familiar with Catholic teaching, you'll get why we're complaining.

I started with an NIV. Used NIV for a long time. I had a KJV for some time in high school. I was fond of that translation for many years. I got to college and my theology classes required NAB as my professor felt the translation was purer. I happen to convert to Catholicism in college so I have stuck with the NAB. I do however still carry my old NIV pocket Bible around out of sentimentality and it is a pocket version where my daily driver NAB Bible is bigger!