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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
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Subject: Re: Bible Translations
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Date: Sun, 31-Mar-85 21:44:17 EST
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My preferred translations:

  (1)  RSV: I us it as a standard bible, accepted to some degree by almost
       everyone.

  (2)  Jerusalem Bible: a good modern translation; the notes in the fullest
       edition are excellent.  My only beef is that they insist on
       transliterating YHWH, complete with vowels!

Bibles I don't like:

  (1) Living Bible: It's a paraphrase, and that's sufficient to condemn it in
      my eyes.

  (2) NIV: Tends to have a fundamentalist cant.  (Remember the Sodom argument
      of a few weeks ago?)

  (3) KJV: You can't get one with the notes or the apocrypha, and there are
      too many translation errors.

Don't care:

  (1) NEB
  (2) Todays English Version (also called Good News)

Haven't seen but want to acquire:

  (1) New Jewish Version
  (2) New American Bible


Charley Wingate    umcp-cs!mangoe