Which bible version

[Mary_Magdalene]

Which bible versions do MJ use?

Thanks.

 

[ShirChadash]

My family and I use many versions. My "old stand-by" is NKJV, as it was my fav, but for other references and enjoyment, I'll read Stern's CJB and its commentary and pretty much everything from The Jerusalem Bible to Greek/Hebrew interlinear and now we own (thankfully) a Stone's Chumash... we have nearly every major "Bible version". The one thing we won't use much at all is anything NIV-related -- we do have NIV's and a CEV we used to use for strictly devotional reading now and again... but we don't take the wording in the NIV or those more contemporary versions to be accurate when it comes right down to it in a word-study, etc.

Check out www.blueletterbible.org
and the Bible search at www.crosswalk.com

and you can choose which Bible version you want to look at and compare texts to see the differences in how they are rendered. The Crosswalk.com one is fabulous, has many many differing versions now, including Stern's Complete Jewish Bible.

HTH!

 

[WildCelt]

I read the Stone Chumash as well, but also like the Complete Jewish Bible and, for reading on my Palm, Hebrew Names Version.

 

[insaneinthebrain]

It seems that the majority use David Stern's Complete Jewish Bible. I, however, prefer to use the Stone Edition Tanakh for my "Old Testament" texts, and a NASB "New Testament."

 

[Sephania]

Thanks for that heads-up about the Stern bible now being on crosswalk, Zem I never realized their new additions. This I found rather unsettling though, this is from the Modern Bible called "the Message":


1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth - all you see, all you don't see. 2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

According to this article http://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/cms_content/157290647?page=253967&event=1003MIN it is a translation paraphrase, I will have to check out more when I have time but that first is not what I have read in Hebrew.

[font=Arial, Geneva, Helvetica]1:1 In the beginning God created * the heaven and the earth. [/font]1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. As you can see by what I have highlighted in red in verse one that isn't even in the Hebrw text and the second verse , well I dont' even purpose to know where he got that from.

א בְּרֵאשִׁית, בָּרָא אֱלֹהִים, אֵת הַשָּׁמַיִם, וְאֵת הָאָרֶץ. 1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. ב וְהָאָרֶץ, הָיְתָה תֹהוּ וָבֹהוּ, וְחֹשֶׁךְ, עַל-פְּנֵי תְהוֹם; וְרוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, מְרַחֶפֶת עַל-פְּנֵי הַמָּיִם. 2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters.
The word for bird is Tzippor and is not found ( or I can't find it) in the second Hebrew verse. In fact I see no tzadi in there anywhere.

 

[shmuel]

The word merachefet is from the root resh-chet-pe, which means hover as a bird hovers over its young. Whether one wants to include "like a bird" in the translation is, I suppose, a manner of taste, but the imagery is indicated by the verb.

S

 

[Sephania]

I just knew you would shed some light on that shmuel!

 

[brentsbaby612]

I know everyone here has there own preference. Personally I prefer KJV with hebrew names. But since it's not on paper yet I just use KJV. I don't like how passover was changed to easter in it but the hebrew name verson fixes it!