You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Muslims Following Jesus. Stay updated via RSS. What Is The Bible? Were All The Prophets Sinless? Why Do You Fast? Who Did God Appear To? Can God Die? Jesus said…Muhammad said….
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Ali: Haha! I have memorized it since young so I can recite the Quran fully. Alan: Good. Ali: Not all of it. Ali: Well, there are translations of the Quran in English and…. You have the Yusuf Ali version, the Pickthall version, the Sahih International version, the Shakir version…many versions… Ali: These are not different versions of the Quran.
Ali: OK. I get what you are saying. Ali: So which translation of the Bible do you read? Ali: Can you show me a verse as an example? Alan: Sure. You choose.
Alan: OK. Ali: Fine. Cancel at any time. We will not share your details. Always free. Types of Bible Versions. More than 60 English-language versions of the Bible are available today. We can divide them into three broad types: Word-for-word Meaning-to-meaning also called thought-to-thought Paraphrased. Three types of translations 1 The word-for-word versions most accurately follow the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts.
Hebrews New King James Version "Why in all things it behooved him to be made like to his brothers, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. Below is a listing of some Bible versions according to the type of translation they are. What is the New Testament? Bible Insights.
In This Section. We use cookies in order to improve our website content, user experience and analyse how the site is used. Why are there different translations of the Bible in the first place? Think about it. People read the Bible devotionally, they preach from it, they use it in Bible studies, they do scholarly work on it, they study it, they have conversations about doctrines from it, they defend their understanding of the faith with it. And the fact is, for most of these activities, a strict word-for-word translation of the original Greek or Hebrew would not be very useful.
In fact, it would be incredibly frustrating. Just take Mark again. If we translated it strictly word-for-word from the Greek, it would come out sounding something like this:.
But who wants to endure that when you just want to read the Bible over a cup of coffee in the morning? Sometimes a stricter, more word-for-word translation of the original language is exactly what you need.
But at other times, you want something a bit more readable, a bit more readily understandable, and so some translations offer a more phrase-for-phrase or even thought-for-thought approach, smoothing out word order, preferring English syntax over Greek or Hebrew syntax, and generally just rendering the thoughts of the original in a form that an English-speaking reader will better understand. To put it slightly more technically, every translation of the Bible has to aim, to one degree or another, at both accuracy and readability.
Some translation committees take it as their mission to heavily privilege accuracy and as we saw with Mark necessarily sacrifice readability to a certain degree. I hope you can see the point in all this. Nothing in either the theory or the reality-on-the-ground of Bible translations introduces the slightest bit of doubt about whether we can really know what the Bible in its original languages says.
In fact, we do know what it says, and the places where some scholars disagree are few and far between and ultimately of minor significance. The Bible can be and has been translated correctly, over and over and over again. This article is adapted from Why Trust the Bible?
The Why Trust the Bible? Study Guide , is a companion to the book to help both Christian and non-Christian readers answer questions about the reliability of the Bible. He is the author of What Is the Gospel? Greg and his wife, Moriah, have three children. Why Trust the Bible? We all read things every day and are warned not to believe everything.
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