Which Bible Should You Read? by Thomas A. Nelson

Someone ask me which Bible should they read?  My son did a paper on the different Bibles that exist.  He used this booklet to do his paper.  TAN Books offered this booklet

on their book list, at that time they only offered the Douay Rheims Bible, now they offer all bibles....  They no longer offer this booklet available.  It is a short comparison

and commentary on modern bible translations by Thomas A. Nelson.  I found it in a PDF file of this booklet.

Is a short, provocative analysis showing which is the most accurate, safest English translation of the Bible.  And surprisingly - though probably not so surprisingly - the

Douay-Rheims traditional Catholic version of the Bible emerges from this analysis and comparison as the best, safest, most accurate Bible in English of the ten versions

compared.

The reasons are basically very simple:  The Douay-Rheims is an accurate translation of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible (c. 405 A.D.), which in turn is an accurate,

usually word-for-word translation form the original languages.  Plus, St. Jerome was Greek-speaking from birth, knew Latin perfectly, studied Hebrew starting at

age 26, had many manuscripts to work from that are no longer extant, was 1600 years closer to the writing of the New Testament than today's scholars, was a

consummate linguistic genius and was obviously a man raised up by God to translate Scripture into the common Latin.

The author's lively style and surprising comparisons will challenge everyone's thinking, so that no one will finish this booklet without realizing that the accuracy of the

modern Bible translations has been profoundly questioned.

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