10-08-2010, 07:34 AM
Rafa Wrote:Alan, I was confusing the New American Standard version Bible with the New American Bible, they are very different. The NASB is the bible considered by most scholars as the most literal translation of the Byzantine Greek text and Septuagint influenced masoretic text (I thought the NASB translated only the Septuagint, no it is the MT influenced by Septuagint), the New American Bible is the one used by the catholic lectionary (it uses masoretic text, vulgate, Dead sea scrolls, and Septuagint). The New American Standard Version Bible (exact name, or NASB) is the one your looking for endorsed by the Church as most similar to the Peshitta NT and Peshitto old testament. If you can't get it, settle for the New King James since it is a good translation of the reliable non-corrupt Greek texts ( it is endorsed by the Greek Orthodox Church too). You can also get the orthodox study bible of the GOC itself too, I highly recommend it :
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but the NASB is the one you'd most benefit from.
Thats the one I have, the Orthodox Study Bible, I really like it and was just curious to know if it was a reliable version.