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Originally Posted by Fourtyrulz
In addition to the King James edition, I recommend the New Jerusalem translation, and while we're at it whatever translations you can get a hold of. Studying the New Jerusalem version compared to the King James and others was a jarring and unforgettable history lesson.
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Thanks Fourtyrulz. I just spent a few hours reading comparisons between the different Bible versions and find that the NJ version is certainly easier to understand than the KJ version. My purpose in reading the Bible when I was in my teens was not so much for absolute accuracy but more to determine the nature of the Jewish tribal god and whether to accept his word and his son as my religion.
The NJ translation seems to try and interpret the scripture as gender neutral whereas I believe the oldtimers who wrote it were very sexist and wrote what they meant. To me it is like re-writing Mark Twain and replacing all the racial slurs with the more accepted nowadays African American. I would rather read what Twain actually wrote instead of a modern politically correct version. Other than that, from what I have read the NJ version is probably a more accurate interpretation than the KJ one.