King James is fun to read, especially if you are into linguistics. They wrote the King James bible to make it sound poetically beautiful, and not just a complete literal translation if what my English teacher said in high school is correct.
I've only read Good News Bible and New International Version and the Catholic Revised Standard Version. The advantage of the idiomtic ones is that they are easy to read. I haven't really made an opinion on the differences, though there is a huge difference in the language structure in the three editions though they basically kinda mean the same thing.
Though I do like the childrens version with pictures!
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Date: 2006-11-06 02:09 pm (UTC)I've only read Good News Bible and New International Version and the Catholic Revised Standard Version. The advantage of the idiomtic ones is that they are easy to read. I haven't really made an opinion on the differences, though there is a huge difference in the language structure in the three editions though they basically kinda mean the same thing.
Though I do like the childrens version with pictures!