Which Good Book?

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Table of Contents

• The Beginning
• The Initial Question
• Bibles Based on Textus Receptus
  • King James Version
  • Updated KJV Versions with Exclusive Reliance on Textus Receptus
  • KJV Version that Also Considers Modern Scholarship
• Bibles Based on the Critical Text
  • The Literal Side of the Continuum
  • The Thought-for-Thought Side of the Continuum
    • The Use of Traditional, Gendered Terms
    • Gender-Neutral Language
  • Paraphrases
• Specific Faith Communities and Other Particular Needs
  • Different Canons
    • Protestant Canon
    • Apocrypha
    • Roman Catholic Canon
    • Orthodox Canon
    • Canonical Status of Specific Biblical Books
    • Innovations in the Christian Tradition
  • Other Particular Needs
    • Study Bibles
    • Easy Bibles
    • Bibles in Languages Other Than English
• Concerning Source Documents
  • Old Testament Source Documents
    • Septuagint (LXX)
    • Masoretic Text
    • Samaritan Pentateuch
    • Peshitta
    • Biblia Hebraica
    • Dead Sea Scrolls
  • New Testament Source Documents
    • Textus Receptus
    • Majority Text
    • Byzantine Text
    • Alexandrian Text
    • Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in the Original Greek
    • Nestle and Aland's Novum Testamentum Graece
• How Translation Principles Affect Biblical Text: An Example
• Summary of the Modern-Era English Bibles Discussed in This Guide
  • Amplified Bible (AMP)
  • Bible in Basic English (BBE)
  • Common English Bible (CEB)
  • Contemporary English Version (CEV)
  • Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
  • English Standard Version (ESV)
  • God's Word (GW)
  • Good News Translation (GNT)
  • Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
  • Inclusive Bible (IB)
  • King James Version (KJV)
  • Living Bible (LB)
  • The Message (MSG)
  • NET Bible (New English Translation)
  • New American Bible (NAB)
  • New American Standard Bible (NASB)
  • New Cambridge Paragraph Bible (NCPB)
  • New Century Version (NCV)
  • New International Readers Version (NIrV)
  • New International Version (NIV)
  • New Jerusalem Bible (NJB)
  • New King James Version (NKJV)
  • New Life Version (NLV)
  • New Living Translation (NLT)
  • New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
  • Orthodox Study Bible (OSB)
  • Revised English Bible (REB)
  • Third Millennium Bible (TMB)
  • Today's New International Version (TNIV)
  • 21^st Century King James Version (KJ21)
  • The Voice (VOICE)
• Some Other Historically Significant and Specialty Bibles
  • American Standard Version (ASV), 1901
  • Bishop's Bible, 1568
  • Coverdale Bible, 1535
  • Complete Jewish Bible, 1998
  • Darby Translation, 1890
  • Douay-Rheims Bible, 1582–1610
  • Eastern/Greek Orthodox New Testament, 2011
  • Geneva Bible, 1560
  • Great Bible, 1539
  • Interlinear Bibles (various dates)
  • Lexham English Bible, 2010–11
  • New English Translation of the Septuagint, 2007
  • Orthodox Jewish Bible, 2002
  • Revised Standard Version (RSV), 1952
  • Tyndale Bible, 1536 (New Testament)
  • Vulgate, Fourth Century
  • World English Bible (WEB), 2012
  • Wycliffe Bible, 1395
  • YouVersion, 2007
  • Young's Literal Translation (YLT), 1863
• References and Other Resources
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