What bible/Bible Version are you Reading?

[kim_trasher07]

Hi sissies!

I would like to know if what bible or Bible Version are you reading?

I have 2 bibles in our house, King James Version and New World Translation Version.

[dominique8888]

New King James Version

[smcav]

KJV

[Bash]

My husband's gift... KJV

[innocent_beauty]

I have king james, ang dating biblia,  the hebrew/jewish bible stored on my comp. , and the dead sea scroll  ( for some info )

[kim_trasher07]

^ sis is the dead sea scroll bible or book?

[shotokan]

^ sis is the dead sea scroll bible or book?

isn't it... the bible itself is a collection of Books from different authors?...

[innocent_beauty]

^ sis is the dead sea scroll bible or book?

it is the lost scripture in the bible found and written in hebrew, arabic, and jewish,  mine is complete book by miller burrows with original hebrew letters and arabic and there is translated at the bottom, it was features before in history channel the lost scripture of the bible , and I bought the books. it is a books actually the missing some parts of the bible. some writtings of paul was there, mark, genesis, daniel, peter, exodus , and some of johns writting about the war of son of God and son of evil was there that was never written in the book of revelations etc... at mga writtings na di makikita sa bible na naisulat ng mga apostle na also studied and translated by schoolars who study writtings of hebrew, arabic at jewish .

[kim_trasher07]

^^ yes sis the bible is a collection of books written by different people, in different places and in different time.

Mangha mangha talaga ako sa bibliya. Kaya talagang masasabi kong inspired/guided by God. Mga taong di magkakakilala/magkakaiba ng panahon na nabuhay, ang nagsulat nito.yet napagisa sila. God is Great.

[gwacie]

New American Bible

[nelle21]

KJV yun lang!

[the_witness]

^ sis is the dead sea scroll bible or book?

Sis Kim. Allow me to answer this question.

These are manuscripts.

The Bedouins found 7 leather scrolls in 1947  in a cave situated in the wilderness of Judah not far from the Dead Sea - kaya tinawag na "Dead Sea Scrolls". In 1951 forward, they found more.

So there are about 800 of these manuscripts which were discovered archaeologically. They are called the "greatest archaeological discovery of the 20th century."

These scrolls and fragments are written in Hebrew, Aramaic (not Arabic), and a few in Greek. Over 200 (the ones found at Qumran) of these are copies of portions of every book in Hebrew Bible Text(Old Testament) except Esther. One of these, was the complete book of Isaiah.

A lot of these manuscripts were published quickly and they included:

The  books "Dead Sea Scrolls" in 1955, and "More Light on the Dead Sea Scrolls" in 1958 written by Millar Burrows, a professor of Biblical Literature, were published.

But...

In 1991, almost 400 manuscripts were still unpublished and unavailable to most scholars.

Kumalat tuloy ang controversies and drama and rumors circulating about a massive cover-up. Gustong malaman ng mga tao kung tinatago ba ng mga scholars ang laman nitong ibang mga scrolls? They thought these scrolls might be some "hidden" secret or some missing manuscripts that may reveal facts that would undermine the faith of Christians and Jews alike. They might have thought "these are missing parts of the Bible that should have been there!".

But that was NOT the case! The Dead Sea Scroll Team (4 scholars strictly dedicated to this research), published the official results of their research. Wala namang cover up.

In 1991 also, " A Preliminary Edition of the Unpublished Dead Sea Scrolls : The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts from Cave Four, was published.

A Facsimile Edition of the Dead Sea Scrolls, photographs of the previously unpublished scrolls became easily accessible as well.

So for the last decade, all the Dead Sea Scrolls have been available for examination by anyone.

What do the most of them contain? Not all scrolls that have manuscripts are necessarily Biblical. Some are sectarians as well. Example many of them are  manuscripts that are in Qumran texts and evidently once belonged to a Jewish religious community centered at nearby Khirbet Qumran (Horvat Qumeran). Some parts also are from a different sect that breathe out bitter hatred against all those not belonging to their sect. This sect was borrowed from Persian Zoroastrianism. There were also parts that deal with the Essenes. The scrolls describing the rules and beliefs of the Qumran sect make very clear that there was not just one form of Judaism in the time of Jesus. The Qumran sect had traditions different from those of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.

The Dead Sea Scrolls help us to a degree to understand the context of Jewish life during the time that Jesus preached. They provide comparative information for the study of ancient Hebrew and the Bible text.

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Other than that,  the Bible we have right now, the 66 individual books from Genesis to Revelations, available to us, is already COMPLETE and inspired by God Jehovah - 2 Timothy 3:16.

After all, would He allow an incomplete version of "His word" the Bible to be distributed to all peoples of the earth for a long time?

The Dead Sea Scrolls are mere discoveries that prove the authenticity and completeness of the Bible as what Millar Burrows has said after  examining DSS documents, “The general reader and student of the Bible may be satisfied to note that nothing in all this changes our understanding of the religious teachings of the Bible . . . The essential truth and the will of God revealed in the Bible, however, have been preserved unchanged through all the vicissitudes in the transmission of the text.”—The Dead Sea Scrolls, by Millar Burrows.

[kim_trasher07]

^thanks for the info the_witness!

[binlaten]

The New Jerusalem Bible

[nelle21]

isn't it... the bible itself is a collection of Books from different authors?...

where can we get this? is it available in the bookstores?

[Surrender_Dorothy]

Mga sis, anong version ng bible yung walang thee's and thou's? Yung modern English na yung pagkatranslate.  Nahihilo ako dun sa thee's and thou's eh.

[nicoletta]

the_witness
that was very informative, and almost alien to me   are you a religious scholar?

I have king james version

[smcav]

KJV

[kim_trasher07]

marami pala sa atin ang gumagamit ng KJV.

[chrome-plated heart]

NKJV, and NIV. pero lately puro NIV (kasi yun ang nakalagay sa pda ko eh).